25 The sword shall destroy outside; Thereshallbe terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.
26aI 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, a“Our hand is high; And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’
28 “For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor isthereany understanding in them.
29aOh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their blatter end!
30 How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock ahad sold them, And the Lord had surrendered them?
The wrath - Their rage against me, as it is expressed, Isaiah 37:28-29, their furious reproaches against my name, as if I were cruel to my people or unable to deliver them. The fear hereof is ascribed to God after the manner of men. Strangely - Insolenty and arrogantly above what they used to do.
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