Commentary on Harmony of the Law Volume 2 Complete John Calvin
JOHN CALVIN
24. They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
24. Combusti erunt fame, et comesti aegritudine calida, et excisione amara: dentes quoque bestiarum immittam in eos cum veneno serpentium super terram.
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.
25. Foris orbabit gladius, et in cubiculis erit terror: etiam juvenem, etiam virginera, lactentem cum viro sene.
26. I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
26. Dicerem, Dispergam eos per angulos, cessare faciam ex hominibus memoriam eorum.
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.
27. Nisi iram inimici timerem, ne forte alienos se ostentent hostes eorum: ne forte dicant, Manus nostra excelsa, neque Jehova operatus est omnia ista.
28. For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
28. Gens enim perdita consiliis sunt, nec est illis intelligentia.
29. Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
29. Si sapientes essent, intelligerent novissimum suum.
30. How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?
30. Quomodo persequutus fuisset unus mille, et duo fugassent decem millia, nisi quod Deus eorum vendisset eos, et Jehova tradidisset eos?