24They will be wasted from hunger
and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague;
I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them,
with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
25Outside, the sword will take their children,
and inside, terror will strike
the young man and the young woman,
the infant and the gray-haired man.
26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces
and blot out their memory from mankind,
27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest their adversaries misunderstand and say:
‘Our own hand has prevailed;
it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,
with no understanding among them.
29If only they were wise, they would understand it;
they would comprehend their fate.
30How 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?
— Deuteronomy 32:24-30

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