23 “I will heap calamities(A) on them
    and spend my arrows(B) against them.
24 I will send wasting famine(C) against them,
    consuming pestilence(D) and deadly plague;(E)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(F)
    the venom of vipers(G) that glide in the dust.(H)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(I) will reign.(J)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(K)
26 I said I would scatter(L) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(M)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand(N)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”(O)

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23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.

24 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

25 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

27 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.

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