²⁵ Outside the sword will bereave,
    and in the rooms,
    terror on both young man and virgin,
    the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.
²⁶ I said that I would scatter them afar.
    I would make their memory to cease from among men;
²⁷ were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should judge wrongly,
    lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted;
    Yahweh has not done all this.’”