24 They will be starved and sick,destroyed by terrible diseases.I will send them vicious animalsand gliding, poisonous snakes.
25 In the streets the sword will kill;in their homes there will be terror.Young men and women will die,and so will babies and gray-haired men.
26 I will scatter them as I said,and no one will remember them.
27 But I didn’t want their enemy to brag;their enemy might misunderstandand say, ‘We have won!The Lord has done none of this.’ ”
28 Israel has no sense;they do not understand.
29 I wish they were wise and understood this;I wish they could see what will happen to them.
30 One person cannot chase a thousand people,and two people cannot fight ten thousandunless their Rock has sold them,unless the Lord has given them up.