25 War will bring death in the streets;terrors will strike in the homes.Young men and young women will die;neither babies nor old people will be spared.
26 I would have destroyed them completely,so that no one would remember them.
27 But I could not let their enemies boastthat they had defeated my people,when it was I myself who had crushed them.’
28 “Israel is a nation without sense;they have no wisdom at all.
29 They fail to see why they were defeated;they cannot understand what happened.
30 Why were a thousand defeated by one,and 10,000 by only two?The Lord, their God, had abandoned them;their mighty God had given them up.
31 Their enemies know that their own gods are weak,not mighty like Israel's God.