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Berean Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 32:27

“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.’””
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25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

27If 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.’”

28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

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