24. Exhausted by famine, And consumed by heat, and bitter destruction. And the teeth of beasts I send upon them, With poison of fearful things of the dust.
25. Without bereave doth the sword, And at the inner-chambers--fear, Both youth and virgin, Suckling with man of grey hair.
26. I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;
27. If not--the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know--Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.
28. For a nation lost to counsels [are] they, And there is no understanding in them.
29. If they were wise--They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end:
30. How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not--that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up?
31. For not as our Rock [is] their rock, (And our enemies [are] judges!)