²⁵ The cherev without, and terror within, shall destroy both the bochur and the betulah, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

²⁶ I said, I will dash them in pieces, 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 misinterpret, and lest they should say, Our hand is triumphant, and Hashem hath not done all this.

²⁵ The cherev without, and terror within, shall destroy both the bochur and the betulah, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.

²⁶ I said, I will dash them in pieces, 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 misinterpret, and lest they should say, Our hand is triumphant, and Hashem hath not done all this.