27. But I could not let their enemies boastthat they had defeated my people,when it was I myself who had crushed them.’
28. “Israel is a nation without sense;they have no wisdom at all.
29. They fail to see why they were defeated;they cannot understand what happened.
30. Why were a thousand defeated by one,and 10,000 by only two?The Lord, their God, had abandoned them;their mighty God had given them up.
31. Their enemies know that their own gods are weak,not mighty like Israel's God.
32. Their enemies, corrupt as Sodom and Gomorrah,are like vines that bear bitter and poisonous grapes,
33. like wine made from the venom of snakes.