CLV(i)
22 For a fire will be kindled by My anger, and it shall glow unto the unseen beneath; it shall devour the earth and its crop, and it shall set aflame the foundations of the mountains.
23 I shall cause evils to sweep up over them; I shall exhaust My arrows among them
24 who are gaunt with famine, fought by pestilence and bitter sting:Even the tooth of beasts shall I send among them along with the venom of skulkers of the soil.
25 From the outside, the sword shall bereave, and from the chambers, the dread of war, even for the man in his prime, even for the virgin, the suckling along with the grey-haired man.
26 I would say:I might blow them away, I might eradicate their remembrance from mortals,
27 unless I shrank away from the vexation of the enemy; lest their foes misconstrue, lest they say:Our hand is high, and it was not Yahweh Who contrived all this.
28 For they are a nation whose counsel is destructive, and there is no understanding in them.
29 O that they were wise; they would proceed intelligently in this; they would understand about their latter days!
30 How could one pursue a thousand or two put a myriad to flight, if it were not that their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had surrounded them?
31 For their rock is not like our Rock; even our enemies are umpires.
32 For their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the terraces of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison, and the clusters are bitterness to them;"
33 their wine is as the fury of snakes and the poison of cobras, as cruel.
34 Is it not amassed with Me, sealed among My treasure.
35 for the day of vengeance and repayment, for the season when their foot shall slip? For the day of their calamity is near, and impending doom hurries upon them.
36 For Yahweh shall adjudicate His people and show Himself merciful over His servants when He sees that the power of their hand has departed and has become nil for both the restrained and the ones set free.
37 Then Yahweh will ask:Where are their elohim, the rock in whom they took refuge,
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their libations? Let them rise up and help you; let them become a concealment over you.
39 See now that I, I am He, and there is no other elohim besides Me. I Myself put to death, and I keep alive; I have transfixed, and I Myself shall heal, and there is no one who could reclaim from My hand!"
40 For I lift My hand to the heavens and declare:As I am the Life for the eon,
41 when I whet My flashing sword and My hand lays hold on judgment, I shall return vengeance to My foes, and to My haters shall I make repayment.
42 I shall make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, the blood of the one mortally wounded and the captive, from the head of the enemy commanders.