26. I would have annihilated them,wiping out even the memory of them.
27. But I feared the taunt of Israel’s enemy,who might misunderstand and say,“Our own power has triumphed!The lord had nothing to do with this!”’
28. “But Israel is a senseless nation;the people are foolish, without understanding.
29. Oh, that they were wise and could understand this!Oh, that they might know their fate!
30. How could one person chase a thousand of them,and two people put ten thousand to flight,unless their Rock had sold them,unless the lord had given them up?