24. They will be starved and sick,destroyed by terrible diseases.I will send them vicious animalsand gliding, poisonous snakes.
25. In the streets the sword will kill;in their homes there will be terror.Young men and women will die,and so will babies and gray-haired men.
26. I will scatter them as I said,and no one will remember them.
27. But I didn’t want their enemy to brag;their enemy might misunderstandand say, ‘We have won!The Lord has done none of this.’ ”
28. Israel has no sense;they do not understand.