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The Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 32, Verse 27

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I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
King James Version
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.
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.
New English Translation
But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say,“Our power is great, and the LORD has not done all this!”’
World English Bible
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.'"
28
For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.
29
O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!
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?
31
For their rock [is] not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves [being] judges.
32
For their vine [is] of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes [are] grapes of gall, their clusters [are] bitter:
33
Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
34
[Is] not this laid up in store with me, [and] sealed up among my treasures?
35
To me [belongeth] vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in [due] time: for the day of their calamity [is] at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
36
For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that [their] power is gone, and [there is] none shut up, or left.
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And he shall say, Where [are] their gods, [their] rock in whom they trusted,