²⁸ But where are your gods
    that you made for yourself?
Let them come, if they can save you,
    in your time of trouble,
for you have as many gods
    as you have towns, O Judah.^(A)

³⁷ Then he will say, ‘Where are their gods,
    the rock in which they took refuge,^(A)
38 who ate the fat of their sacrifices
    and drank the wine of their libations?
Let them rise up and help you;
    let them be your protection!

³ What will you do on the day of punishment,
    in the calamity that will come from far away?
To whom will you flee for help,
    and where will you leave your wealth,^(A)

²⁵ and because you have ignored all my counsel
    and would have none of my reproof,^(A)
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
    I will mock when panic strikes you,^(B)
27 when panic strikes you like a storm
    and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
    when distress and anguish come upon you.

²⁶ I said, “I will make an end of them^[a]
    and blot out the memory of them from humankind,”^(A)
27 but I feared provocation by the enemy,
    for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is triumphant;
    it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’^(B)