25. Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.
26. I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.
27. But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.
28. They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.
29. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.
30. How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
31. For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.