22. For a fire is kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23. And I will heap evils upon them; I will spend My arrows upon them.
24. They shall be wasted with hunger and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence; and the teeth of beasts will I send against them, with the poison of crawling things of the dust.
25. From without the sword shall bereave, and in the chambers shall be terror, destroying both young man and virgin, the sucking child with the man of gray hairs.
26. I said, I would scatter them afar and I would have made the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
27. Had I not feared the provocation of the foe, lest their enemies misconstrue it and lest they should say, Our own hand has prevailed; all this was not the work of the Lord.
28. For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
29. O that they were wise and would see through this [present triumph] to their ultimate fate!
30. How could one have chased a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had delivered them up?
31. For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves judge this.
32. For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of [poisonous] gall, their clusters are bitter.
33. Their wine is the [furious] venom of serpents, and the pitiless poison of vipers.
34. Is not this laid up in store with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?
35. Vengeance is Mine, and recompense, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their disaster is at hand and their doom comes speedily.
36. For the Lord will revoke sentence for His people and relent for His servants' sake when He sees that their power is gone and none remains, whether bond or free.
37. And He will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge,
38. Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you, let them be your protection!