25. The sword without and terror within shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26. I said I would shatter them in pieces: I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
27. if I did not fear the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should become vain and lest they should say, Our high hand has done this and not the Lord.