Deuteronomy 32:26-28 - WEB
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I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
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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, Yahweh has not done all this.
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For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.
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