^{24 Ref} `They shall be' wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

^{25 Ref} Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; `It shall destroy' both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

^{26 Ref} I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;

^{27 Ref} Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

^{28 Ref} For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

^{29 Ref} Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

^{30 Ref} How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?