23I will send a rain of troubles on them, my arrows will be showered on them.
24They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.
25Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.
26I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:
27But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
28For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.
29If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
