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Deuteronomy 32:27

American Standard Version

Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

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Deuteronomy 32:27 in other translations

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.’ ”

Deuteronomy 32:27 · World English Bible

Deuteronomy 32:27 in context

  1. 25Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; It shall destroy both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs.
  2. 26I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
  3. 27Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.
  4. 28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
  5. 29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!