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24 [They shall be] wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat And bitter destruction; And the teeth of beasts will I send upon them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.
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I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
25 Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; [It shall destroy] both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
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In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.
26 I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
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I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory,
27 Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.
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but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.’ ”
28 For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
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They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.
29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!
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If only they were wise and would understand this and discern what their end will be!
30 How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up?
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How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
31 For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
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For their rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.
32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah: Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter:
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Their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are filled with poison, and their clusters with bitterness.
33 Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.
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Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
34 Is not this laid up in store with me, Sealed up among my treasures?
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“Have I not kept this in reserve and sealed it in my vaults?
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