LITV(i)
23 I will heap evils on them; I will use up My arrows on them.
24 I will send on them exhaustion by famine, and depletion by burning heat, and bitter destruction, and the teeth of beasts, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.
25 The sword shall bereave from without, and terror from within, both the young man and the virgin, the suckling with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I will dash them to pieces; I will make their memory cease from among men;
27 saying, Were it not the provocation of an enemy I feared, that their foes should judge amiss, that they might not say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, and no understanding is in them.
29 If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their latter end.
30 How could one chase a thousand, and two put a myriad to flight, if it were not their Rock that sold them, and Jehovah had shut them up?
31 For their rock is not our Rock, even our enemies being judges.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and their grapes of the fields of Gomorrah, grapes of gall; they have bitter clusters.
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps.
34 Is it not stored up with Me, sealed in My treasuries?
35 Vengeance and retribution belong to Me; in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is near, and the things prepared are hurrying for them.
36 For Jehovah will bring His people justice; and He shall have compassion on His servants, for He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain .
37 And He will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge?
38 Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let it be a hiding place for you.
39 See now that I, I am He, and there is no other God with Me. I kill, and I keep alive. I wound and I heal, and there is no deliverer from My hand.
40 For I lift up My hand to Heaven and say, I live forever!
41 If I have sharpened My glittering sword, and My hand lays hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My foes, and I will repay those who hate Me.
42 I will make My arrows drunk with blood, and My sword shall devour flesh, with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the hairy head of the enemy.
43 Rejoice, O nations, of His people; for He shall avenge the blood of His servants, and shall render vengeance to His foes, and shall have mercy on His land and His people.
44 And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.