²⁸ Where then are the gods^(A) you made for yourselves?
    Let them come if they can save you
    when you are in trouble!^(B)
For you, Judah, have as many gods
    as you have towns.^(C)

³⁷ He will say: “Now where are their gods,
    the rock they took refuge in,^(A)
38 the gods who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their drink offerings?^(B)
Let them rise up to help you!
    Let them give you shelter!

³ What will you do on the day of reckoning,^(A)
    when disaster^(B) comes from afar?
To whom will you run for help?^(C)
    Where will you leave your riches?

²⁵ since you disregard all my advice
    and do not accept my rebuke,
²⁶ I in turn will laugh^(A) when disaster^(B) strikes you;
    I will mock^(C) when calamity overtakes you^(D)—
²⁷ when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
    when disaster^(E) sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
    when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

²⁶ I said I would scatter^(A) them
    and erase their name from human memory,^(B)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand^(C)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”^(D)

²⁸ They are a nation without sense,
    there is no discernment^(E) in them.