A moment in scripture
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.
The surrounding passage
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 32:26
I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
- Deuteronomy 32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.
- Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.