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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?