25. The sword without and terror within shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26. I said I would shatter them in pieces: I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
27. if I did not fear the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should become vain and lest they should say, Our high hand has done this and not the Lord.
28. For they are a Gentile void of counsel, neither is there any intelligence in them.
29. O that they were wise, if they were prudent, they would understand their latter end!
30. How could one chase a thousand and two put ten thousands to flight if their strong One had not sold them, and the Lord had not delivered them up?
31. For their strong one is not as our strong One, and even our enemies are judges of this.
32. Therefore, their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are very bitter.
33. Their wine is the poison of dragons and the cruel venom of asps.
34. Do I not have this laid up in store, sealed up in my treasuries?