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?
35. Vengeance and recompense are mine, in the time when their foot shall slide; for the day of their calamity is at hand and that which is determined upon them makes haste.
36. For the Lord shall judge his people and repent himself for his slaves when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left.
37. And he shall say, Where are their gods, their strong one in whom they trusted,
38. who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
39. See now that I, I am he, and there are no gods with me; I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; and there is not one that can deliver out of my hand.
40. When I shall lift up my hand to the heavens and shall say, I live for ever,
41. if I whet the resplendence of my sword and my hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to my enemies and will recompense those that hate me.
42. I will make my arrows drunk with blood and my sword shall devour flesh, in the blood of the slain and of the captives of the heads, in revenge as an enemy.
43. Rejoice, O ye Gentiles, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his slaves and will render vengeance to his enemies and will reconcile his land, to his people.