25 The sword shall [a]kill them without, and in the chambers fear: both the young man and the young woman, the suckling with the man of gray hair.

26 I have said, I would scatter them abroad: I would make their remembrance to cease from among men,

27 Save that I feared the fury of the enemy, lest their adversaries should [b]wax proud, and lest they should say, Our high hand and not the Lord hath done all this.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:25 They shall be slain both in the field and at home.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:27 Rejoicing to see the godly afflicted, and attributing that to themselves, which is wrought by God’s hand.

25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(A) will reign.(B)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(C)
26 I said I would scatter(D) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(E)
27 but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand(F)
and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.’”(G)

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