23. “I will heap calamities on them and spend my arrows against them.
24. I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25. In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.
26. I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory,
27. but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the Lord has not done all this.’ ”
28. They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.
29. If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!
30. How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?
31. For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.
32. Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.
33. Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
34. “Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?