22. For a fire has been inflamed by My anger,and it will burn to the lowest part of Sheol,and shall consume the earth and its produce,and ignite the foundations of the mountains.
23. I will heap misfortunes on them;I will use My arrows on them.
24. They will be starved by famine,and consumed by plague and bitter destruction;I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them,with the poison of crawling creatures in the dust.
25. The sword outside and terror within will destroy both the young man and the virgin,the infant along with the man of gray hair.
26. I said, “I want to cut them into pieces,I will cause the memory of them to disappear from among men,”
27. however, I feared the wrath of the enemy,that their adversaries would misunderstandand say, “Our hand is victorious,and the Lord has not done all this.”
28. For they are a nation devoid of counsel;there is no understanding in them.
29. Would that they were wise,so that they understood this,so that they would comprehend their future!
30. How should one chase a thousand,and two put ten thousand to flight,unless their Rock had sold them,and the Lord had given them up?
31. For their rock is not as our Rock;even our enemies themselves concede this.
32. For their vine is from the vine of Sodomand from the fields of Gomorrah;their grapes are grapes of poison;their clusters are bitter.
33. Their wine is the poison of dragonsand the deadly venom of cobras.
34. Is not this laid up in store with Meand sealed up among My treasures?
35. Vengeance is Mine, and recompense;their foot will slip in due time;for the day of their calamity is at hand,and the things to come hasten upon them.
36. For the Lord will judge His people,and relent in regard to His servants,when He sees that their power is goneand there is no one left, whether restrained or free.