27 if I had not feared insult from the enemy,or feared that these foes might misunderstandand say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed;it wasn’t the Lord who did all this.’ ”
28 Israel is a nation lacking sensewith no understanding at all.
29 If only they were wise, they would figure it out;they would understand their fate.
30 How could one man pursue a thousand,or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them,unless the Lord had given them up?
31 But their “rock” is not like our Rock;even our enemies concede.
32 For their vine is from the vine of Sodomand from the fields of Gomorrah.Their grapes are poisonous;their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is serpents’ venom,the deadly poison of cobras.