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.