²⁸ But ^(A)where are your gods that you have made for yourselves?
Let them arise,
If they ^(B)can save you in the time of your ^[a]trouble;
For ^(C)according to the number of your cities
Are your gods, O Judah.

³⁷ He will say: ^(A)‘Where are their gods,
The rock in which they sought refuge?
³⁸ Who ate the fat of their sacrifices,
And drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise and help you,
And be your refuge.

^3 (A)What will you do in ^(B)the day of punishment,
And in the desolation which will come from ^(C)afar?
To whom will you flee for help?
And where will you leave your glory?

²⁵ Because you ^(A)disdained all my counsel,
And would have none of my rebuke,
^26 (B)I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your terror comes,
²⁷ When ^(C)your terror comes like a storm,
And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
When distress and anguish come upon you.

^26 (A)I would have said, “I will dash them in pieces,
I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,”
²⁷ Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, ^(B)“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’