“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 (WEB)
Context Reading
25Outside the sword will bereave,and in the rooms,terror on both young man and virgin,the nursing infant with the gray-haired man. 26I said that I would scatter them afar.I would make their memory to cease from among men; 27were 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.’” 28For they are a nation void of counsel.There is no understanding in them. 29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this,that they would consider their latter end!