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Moses speaks a poetic song to the people of Israel. Moses continues to use parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
Outside the sword will bereave
Here "sword" represents the army of the enemy. AT: “When the Israelites are outside, the enemy army will kill them” (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
young man and virgin, the nursing baby, and the man of gray hairs
These terms are combined to mean that all kinds of people will die. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism)
I would make the memory of them to cease from among mankind
AT: "I will remove the memory of them from all people" or "I will make all people forget about them"