Deuteronomy 32:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 but 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.” ’ Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, And lest they should say, Our hand is high, And the LORD hath not done all this. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Had I not feared the provocation of the foe, lest their enemies misconstrue it and lest they should say, Our own hand has prevailed; all this was not the work of the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) 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, And Jehovah hath not done all this. Common English Bible but their enemies’ rage concerned me; their opponents might misunderstand. They might say, “Our strong hands, not the LORD’s, did all this,” Catholic Public Domain Version But because of the wrath of the enemies, I have delayed it. Otherwise, perhaps their enemies would be arrogant and would say: "Our exalted hand, and not the Lord, has done all these things." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things. |
A man of God approached and said to the king of Israel, “Thus says the Lord: Because the Arameans have said, ‘The Lord is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys,’ therefore I will give all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot. Selah
Those who surround me lift up their heads; let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!
Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce wrath; change your mind and do not bring disaster on your people.
“Thus shall you speak to King Hezekiah of Judah: Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for why should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.
Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; her downfall was appalling, with none to comfort her. Look, O Lord, at my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!
Therefore, O king, may my counsel be acceptable to you: atone for your sins with righteousness and your iniquities with mercy to the oppressed, so that your prosperity may be prolonged.”
But whoever acts high-handedly, whether native-born or an alien, affronts the Lord and shall be cut off from among the people.
lest the land from which you have brought us say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them and because he hated them, he has brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.”
The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and surround us and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will you do for your great name?”
For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.