Deuteronomy 32:26-28

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁶ I would have said, “I will scatter them afar,
    I will make the remembrance of them cease from among men,”
²⁷ had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
    lest their adversaries should judge amiss,
lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant,
    the Lord has not wrought all this.”’