25. From without shall the sword bereave them, and in the chambers, terror--Both the young man and the virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
26. I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
27. If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.
28. For they are a nation void of counsel, And understanding is not in them.
29. Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end!
30. How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Were it not that their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
31. For their rock is not as our Rock: Let our enemies themselves be judges.
32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of poison, Bitter are their clusters;
33. Their wine is the poison of dragons, And the cruel venom of vipers.
34. Is not this hidden with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
35. Vengeance is mine, and recompense, For the time when their foot shall slip. For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36. For Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that power is gone, And there is none shut up or left.
37. And he shall say, Where are their gods, Their rock in whom they trusted,
38. Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, That there may be a protection over you.
39. See now that I, I am HE, And there is no god with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal, And there is none that delivereth out of my hand,