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?
31. But the rock of our enemies is not like our Rock,as even they recognize.
32. Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom,from the vineyards of Gomorrah.Their grapes are poison,and their clusters are bitter.
33. Their wine is the venom of serpents,the deadly poison of cobras.