Deuteronomy 32:24-28

‘They will be wasted by famine, and emaciated by plague And a bitter epidemic; And the teeth of beasts I will send against them, With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

‘Outside the sword will make them childless, And inside, terror— Both young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hair.

‘I would have said, “I will wipe them out, I will remove the mention of their name from humanity,”

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant, And the Lord has not performed all this.” ’

“For they are a nation destitute of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.