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?
31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.
32For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:
