25. Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
26. I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
27. were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”
28. For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.
29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
30. How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?
31. For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves concede.
32. For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poison grapes. Their clusters are bitter.
33. Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.
34. “Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
35. Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. Their doom rushes at them.”
36. For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone; that there is no one remaining, shut up or left at large.
37. He will say, “Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge;