KJV 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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
WEB 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.’”
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
If not—the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know—Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
24 [They shall be] burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
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!
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?
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לוּלֵ֗יH3884 · lu.leunlessכַּ֤עַסH3708 · ka.asvexationאוֹיֵב֙H341 · o.yevenemyאָג֔וּרH1481 · gurto sojournפֶּֽן־H6435 · penlestיְנַכְּר֖וּH5234 · na.kharto recognizeצָרֵ֑ימוֹH6862 · tsarnarrowפֶּן־H6435 · penlestיֹֽאמְרוּ֙H559 · a.marto sayיָדֵ֣ינוּH3027 · yadhandרָ֔מָהH7311 · rumto exaltוְלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotיְהוָ֖הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDפָּעַ֥לH6466 · pa.alto workכָּל־H3605 · kolallזֹֽאת׃H2063 · zotthis
Cross-references
Numbers 14:15-16Now [if] thou shalt kill [all] this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,Psalm 140:8Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; [lest] they exalt themselves. Selah.Zechariah 1:14-15So 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 12:22For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.Joshua 7:9For 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?Exodus 32:12Wherefore 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.Isaiah 47:7And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: [so] that thou didst not lay these [things] to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.Psalm 115:1-2Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth’s sake.Isaiah 37:28-29But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.Daniel 4:30-37The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?Ezekiel 20:20-22And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God.Isaiah 37:10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.Jeremiah 19:4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;Lamentations 1:9Her 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].Isaiah 10:8-15For he saith, [Are] not my princes altogether kings?Isaiah 37:12-23Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?Isaiah 37:35For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.Ezekiel 20:13-14But 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.
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