^{24 Ref} They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

^{25 Ref} 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 Ref} I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

^{27 Ref} Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.

^{28 Ref} For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

^{29 Ref} O 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 the LORD had shut them up?