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25 The sword without, and terror within,
shall destroy both the young man and the virgin,
the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners,
I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
27 were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy,
lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely,
and lest they should say, Our hand is high,
and the Lord hath not done all this.

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25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(A) will reign.(B)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(C)
26 I said I would scatter(D) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(E)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand(F)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”(G)

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