King James Version (KJV)
Deuteronomy 32:27
“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.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 32
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.
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!
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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