Deuteronomy 32:26-28

New Catholic Bible

²⁶ I said, ‘I will scatter them
    and wipe out remembrance of them from among humans,’
²⁷ except that I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the foe misunderstand and say,
‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done this!’ ”
²⁸ They are a nation without sense,
    there is no understanding in them.