24. They will be starved and sick,destroyed by terrible diseases.I will send them vicious animalsand gliding, poisonous snakes.
25. In the streets the sword will kill;in their homes there will be terror.Young men and women will die,and so will babies and gray-haired men.
26. I will scatter them as I said,and no one will remember them.
27. But I didn’t want their enemy to brag;their enemy might misunderstandand say, ‘We have won!The Lord has done none of this.’ ”
28. Israel has no sense;they do not understand.
29. I wish they were wise and understood this;I wish they could see what will happen to them.
30. One person cannot chase a thousand people,and two people cannot fight ten thousandunless their Rock has sold them,unless the Lord has given them up.
31. The rock of these people is not like our Rock;our enemies agree to that.
32. Their vine comes from Sodom,and their fields are like Gomorrah.Their grapes are full of poison;their bunches of grapes are bitter.
33. Their wine is like snake poison,like the deadly poison of cobras.
34. “I have been saving this,and I have it locked in my storehouses.
35. I will punish those who do wrong; I will repay them.Soon their foot will slip,because their day of trouble is near,and their punishment will come quickly.”