Deuteronomy 32:26-28

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁶ I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces.
I will erase their memory from mankind,”
²⁷ if I had not dreaded the taunting of the enemy.
I did not want their adversaries to misunderstand.
I did not want them to say,
“Our hand is high-and-mighty,
and the Lord has not done any of this.”
²⁸ For they are a nation that never takes advice,
and they understand nothing.