"Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, {and} lest …" — Deuteronomy 32:27

Deuteronomy 32:27 · KJV

“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. {Our...: or, Our high hand, and not the LORD hath done}”

— Deuteronomy 32:27

Verse 26

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Verse 28

For they {are} a nation void of counsel, neither {is there any} understanding in them.

Deuteronomy 32 — Context

The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling {also} with the man of gray hairs. {within: Heb. from the chambers} {destroy: Heb. bereave}

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

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. {Our...: or, Our high hand, and not the LORD hath done}

For they {are} a nation void of counsel, neither {is there any} understanding in them.

O that they were wise, {that} they understood this, {that} they would consider their latter end!

Cross References

Numbers 14:15-16

Now {if} thou shalt kill {all} this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,

Exodus 32:12

Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

Joshua 7:9

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear {of it}, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

Zechariah 1:14-15

So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

1 Samuel 12:22

For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.

Psalms 140:8

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; {lest} they exalt themselves. Selah. {lest...: or, let them not be exalted}

Lamentations 1:9

Her filthiness {is} in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified {himself}.

Ezekiel 20:13-14

But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which {if} a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.