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²⁶ I thought to scatter them^*
   and blot out the memory of them from humankind;
²⁷ but I feared provocation by the enemy,
   for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand is triumphant;
   it was not the Lord who did all this.’

²⁸ They are a nation void of sense;
   there is no understanding in them.
²⁹ If they were wise, they would understand this;
   they would discern what the end would be.
³⁰ How could one have routed a thousand,
   and two put a myriad to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
   the Lord had given them up?
³¹ Indeed their rock is not like our Rock;
   our enemies are fools.^*
32 Their vine comes from the vine-stock of Sodom,
   from the vineyards of Gomorrah;
their grapes are grapes of poison,
   their clusters are bitter;
³³ their wine is the poison of serpents,
   the cruel venom of asps.

³⁴ Is not this laid up in store with me,
   sealed up in my treasuries?
³⁵ Vengeance is mine, and recompense,
   for the time when their foot shall slip;
because the day of their calamity is at hand,
   their doom comes swiftly.

³⁶ Indeed the Lord will vindicate his people,
   have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone,
   neither bond nor free remaining.