23. ‘I will heap disasters on them;I will spend My arrows on them.
24. They shall be wasted with hunger,Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;I will also send against them the teeth of beasts,With the poison of serpents of the dust.
25. The sword shall destroy outside;There shall be terror withinFor the young man and virgin,The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26. I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
27. Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,Lest they should say, “Our hand is high;And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’
28. “For they are a nation void of counsel,Nor is there any understanding in them.