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!)
32. For of the vine of Sodom their vine [is], And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes [are] grapes of gall--They have bitter clusters;
33. The poison of dragons [is] their wine And the fierce venom of asps.
34. Is it not laid up with Me? Sealed among My treasures?
35. Mine [are] vengeance and recompense, At the due time--doth their foot slide; For near is a day of their calamity, And haste do things prepared for them.
36. For Jehovah doth judge His people, And for His servants doth repent Himself. For He seeth--the going away of power, And none is restrained and left.
37. And He hath said, Where [are] their gods--The rock in which they trusted;
38. Which the fat of their sacrifices do eat, They drink the wine of their libation! Let them arise and help you, Let it be for you a hiding-place!
39. See ye, now, that I--I [am] He, And there is no god with Me: I put to death, and I keep alive; I have smitten, and I heal; And there is not from My hand a deliverer,
40. For I lift up unto the heavens My hand, And have said, I live--to the age!
41. If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me--I repay!