For it is a nation that hath an
unhappy forecast, and hath no understanding in them: I would they
were wise and understood this and would consider their latter end.
How it cometh that one shall chase a thousand, and two put ten
thousand of them to flight?: except their rock had sold them, and
because the LORD had delivered them. For our rock is not as their
rock, no though our enemies be judge. But their vines are of the
vines of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorra. Their grapes are
grapes of gall, and their clusters be bitter. Their wine is the
poison of dragons, and the cruel gall of asps. Are not such things
laid in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? Vengeance
is mine and I will reward: their feet shall slide, when the time
cometh. For the time of their destruction is at hand, and the time
that shall come upon them maketh haste. For the LORD will do
justice unto his people, and have compassion on his servants. For
it shall be seen that their power shall fail, and at the last they
shall be prisoned and forsaken. And it shall be said: where are
their gods and their rock wherein they trusted? The fat of whose
sacrifices they ate, and drank the wine of their drinkofferings,
let them rise up and help you and be your protection.
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