Deuteronomy 32:25–36

25 The sword shall destroy outside;

There shall be terror within

For the young man and virgin,

The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

26 sI would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,

I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”

27 Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,

Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,

Lest they should say, t“Our hand is high;

And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’

28 “For they are a nation void of counsel,

Nor is there any understanding in them.

29 uOh, that they were wise, that they understood this,

That they would consider their vlatter end!

30 How could one chase a thousand,

And two put ten thousand to flight,

Unless their Rock whad sold them,

And the Lord had surrendered them?

31 For their rock is not like our Rock,

xEven our enemies themselves being judges.

32 For ytheir vine is of the vine of Sodom

And of the fields of Gomorrah;

Their grapes are grapes of gall,

Their clusters are bitter.

33 Their wine is zthe poison of serpents,

And the cruel avenom of cobras.

34 ‘Is this not blaid up in store with Me,

Sealed up among My treasures?

35 cVengeance is Mine, and recompense;

Their foot shall slip in due time;

dFor the day of their calamity is at hand,

And the things to come hasten upon them.’

36 “For ethe Lord will judge His people

fAnd have compassion on His servants,

When He sees that their power is gone,

And gthere is no one remaining, bond or free.