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!’ ”
28. My people have lost their good sense.They are not able to understand.
29. If only they were wise enough to understand thisand realize what will happen to them!
30. How could one person chase a thousandor two people make ten thousand flee?Their rock used these people to defeat themand the Lord gave them no help.
31. Their rock isn’t like our rock.Even our enemies will agree with this.
32. Their grapevines come from the vineyards of Sodomand from the fields of Gomorrah.Their grapes are poisonous,and their clusters are bitter.
33. Their wine is snake venom,the deadly poison of cobras.