^{24 Ref} They will be wasted from need of food, and overcome by burning heat and bitter destruction; and the teeth of beasts I will send on them, with the poison of the worms of the dust.

^{25 Ref} Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

^{26 Ref} I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

^{27 Ref} But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.

^{28 Ref} For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

^{29 Ref} If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!

^{30 Ref} How 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?