25. Outside the sword will bereave,and in the rooms, terror;on both young man and virgin,the nursing infant with the grey-haired man.
26. I said that I would scatter them afar.I would make their memory to cease from amongst men;
27. were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted,The Lord has not done all this.’”
28. For they are a nation void of counsel.There is no understanding in them.
29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,that they would consider their latter end!