24. devastating hunger, consuming plague, bitter sickness.I’ll send animal fangs after them,venom from dust crawlers too.
25. Outside, in the streets, the sword will bereave!Inside, in the safest room, there will be terrorfor young men and women,nursing baby and senior citizen.
26. I thought about it: I could have struck them down,erased them from human memory,
27. but their enemies’ rage concerned me;their opponents might misunderstand.They might say, "Our strong hands,not the Lord’s, did all this,"