²⁴     They’ll be emaciated by famine
        and consumed by fevers and destroyed by bitter pestilence.
    I’ll attack them with the fangs of wild animals
        and the venom of snakes that crawl in the dust.
²⁵     While the sword is killing their children outside,
        they’ll be huddling in terror inside their homes.
    Everyone will be destroyed: young men and women,
        infants and old people with gray hair.
²⁶     I thought I would smash them in pieces
        until no one remembered they ever existed,