23. I will heap misfortunes on them;I will use My arrows on them.
24. They will be starved by famine,and consumed by plague and bitter destruction;I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them,with the poison of crawling creatures in the dust.
25. The sword outside and terror within will destroy both the young man and the virgin,the infant along with the man of gray hair.
26. I said, “I want to cut them into pieces,I will cause the memory of them to disappear from among men,”
27. however, I feared the wrath of the enemy,that their adversaries would misunderstandand say, “Our hand is victorious,and the Lord has not done all this.”
28. For they are a nation devoid of counsel;there is no understanding in them.
29. Would that they were wise,so that they understood this,so that they would comprehend their future!