22 For a fire is kindled in My anger,And shall burn to the lowest hell;It shall consume the earth with her increase,And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
23 ‘I will heap disasters on them;I will spend My arrows on them.
24 They shall be wasted with hunger,Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction;I will also send against them the teeth of beasts,With the poison of serpents of the dust.
25 The sword shall destroy outside;There shall be terror withinFor the young man and virgin,The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26 I 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, “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.