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!
30How would it be possible for one to overcome a thousand, and two to send ten thousand in flight, if their rock had not let them go, if the Lord had not given them up?
