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ities: and I will provoke them with that which 35 Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in
is no people, and will vex them with a foolish due time, that their foot may slide: the day of
nation. destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste
22 A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall to come.
burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour 36 The Lord will judge his people, and will
the earth with her increase, and shall burn the have mercy on his servants: he shall see that
foundations of the mountains. their hand is weakened, and that they who were
23 I will heap evils upon them, and will spend shut up have also failed, and they that remained
my arrows among them. are consumed.
24 They shall be consumed with famine, and 37 And he shall say: Where are their gods, in
birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: whom they trusted?
I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with 38 Of whose victims they ate the fat, and
the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them
and of serpents. arise and help you, and protect you in your dis-
25 Without, the sword shall lay them waste, tress.
and terror within, both the young man and the 39 See ye that I alone am, and there is no
virgin, the sucking child with the man in years. other God besides me: I will kill and I will make
26 I said: Where are they? I will make the to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is
memory of them to cease from among men. none that can deliver out of my hand.
27 But for the wrath of the enemies I have 40 I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will
deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be say: I live for ever.
proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and 41 If I shall whet my sword as the lightning,
not the Lord, hath done all these things. and my hand take hold on judgment: I will ren-
28 They are a nation without counsel, and der vengeance to my enemies, and repay them
without wisdom. that hate me.
29 O that they would be wise and would un- 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood,
derstand, and would provide for their last end. and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of
30 How should one pursue after a thousand, the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head
and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because of the enemies.
their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut 43 Praise his people, ye nations, for he will
them up? revenge the blood of his servants: and will ren-
31 For our God is not as their gods: our ene- der vengeance to their enemies, and he will be
mies themselves are judges. merciful to the land of his people.
32 Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, 44 So Moses came and spoke all the words of
and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue
are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter. the son of Nun.
33 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the 45 And he ended all these words, speaking to
venom of asps, which is incurable. all Israel.
34 Are not these things stored up with me, 46 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all
and sealed up in my treasures? the words, which I testify to you this day: which