Deuteronomy 32:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²⁶I thought to scatter them^[a]
    and blot out the memory of them from humankind;
²⁷but I feared provocation by the enemy,
    for their adversaries might misunderstand
and say, ‘Our hand is triumphant;
    it was not the Lord who did all this.’

²⁸They are a nation void of sense;
there is no understanding in them.

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Deuteronomy 32:26 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)

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