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.