25 Out in the street the sword shall bereave, and at home the terror For the young man and the young woman alike, the nursing babe as well as the gray beard. [AU]

26 I said: I will make an end of them and blot out their name from human memory,

27 Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, that their foes might misunderstand, And say, "Our own hand won the victory; the Lord had nothing to do with any of it." [AV]