25. The sword will make people childless outside,and terror will do so inside;they will destroy both the young man and the virgin,the infant and the gray-haired man.
26. “I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces.I want to make people forget they ever existed.
27. But I fear the reaction of their enemies,for their adversaries would misunderstandand say, “Our power is great,and the Lord has not done all this!”’
28. They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.
29. I wish that they were wise and could understand this,and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
30. How can one man chase a thousand of them,and two pursue ten thousand;unless their Rock had delivered them up,and the Lord had handed them over?