Deuteronomy 32:27

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Summary

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.

Lest their

Zechariah 1:14

They should

General references

Bible References

Lest their

Indeed, the LORD won't abandon His people for the sake of His great name, for the LORD desires to make you a people for himself.

""I know when you rise up and when you sit down, your comings and goings and how you've become enraged at me.

You said, "I will always continue Queen forever!' You didn't take these things into your thinking, nor did you think about their consequences.

""This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "I'm about to bring a disaster on this place that will make the ears of all who hear about it tingle. For they have forsaken me and have treated this place as foreign. In it they have burned incense to other gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah knew. They have also filled this place with the blood of innocent people.

Uncleanness has soiled her skirts, and she gave no thought to what would follow. She fell in such a startling way, with no one to comfort her. Look, LORD, upon my affliction, because my enemy is boasting.

"But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn't live by my statutes. They despised my ordinances, which if a person observes, he'll live by them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my anger on them and bring them to an end in the wilderness.

Then the angel who was speaking to me told me, "Announce this: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "I have a deep concern for Jerusalem, a great concern for Zion.

They should

Why should the Egyptians say, "He brought them out with an evil intention to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your anger and change your mind about the calamity against your people.

But if you slaughter this people all at the same time, then the nations who heard about your fame will say,

The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of this, will surround us, and eliminate us from the earth! Then what will you do about your great reputation?"

Not to us, LORD, not to us, but to your name be given glory on account of your gracious love and faithfulness.

Never grant, LORD, the desires of the wicked; never condone their plans so they cannot exalt themselves. Interlude

"Because this is what he is saying: "My commanders are all kings, are they not?

When he heard it, he returned and sent messengers to Hezekiah: "Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: "Don't let your God on whom you depend deceive you when he says, "Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria."

he commented to himself, "Isn't Babylon great? I've built a royal palace in it by my own might and power, for the sake of my majesty."

General references

"The LORD slaughtered this people in the wilderness because he wasn't able to bring them to the land that he promised them.'

Go and cry out to the gods that you have chosen for yourselves. Let them deliver you in your time of trouble."

Why should the nations ask "Where now is their God?"

I've been concerned about my holy reputation, which the house of Israel has been defiling throughout all of the nations where they've gone."