24. They will be starved by faminesand ravaged by pestilence and deadly epidemics.I will send vicious animals against themalong with poisonous animals that crawl on the ground.
25. Foreign wars will kill off their children,and even at home there will be horrors.Young men and young women alike will dieas well as nursing babies and gray-haired men.
26. I said that I would cut them in pieces and erase everyone’s memory of them.
27. But I didn’t want their enemies to make me angry.I didn’t want their opponents to misunderstand and say,‘We won this victory!It wasn’t the Lord who did all this!’ ”