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XXXII] :And with bitter destruction:
 * I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them,
 * With the poison of serpents of the dust.
 * The sword without,
 * And terror within.
 * Shall destroy both the young man and the virgin.
 * The suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
 * I said, I would scatter them into corners,
 * I would make the remembrance of them to cease
 * from among men:
 * Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,
 * Lest their adversaries should behave themselves
 * strangely,
 * And lest they should say, Our hand is high,
 * And the Lord hath not done all this.
 * For they are a nation void of counsel.
 * Neither is there any understanding in them.
 * O that they were wise, that they understood this,
 * That they would consider their latter end!
 * How should one chase a thousand,
 * And two put ten thousand to flight.
 * Except their Rock had sold them,
 * And the Lord had shut them up?
 * For their rock is not as our Rock,
 * Even our enemies themselves being judges.
 * For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
 * And of the fields of Gomorrah: