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

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Bible References

Lest their

For Jehovah will not forsake His people for His great name's sake, because it has pleased Jehovah to make you His people.

But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against Me.

And you said, I shall be a mistress forever; so you did not lay these things to your heart, nor remembered the latter end of it.

Because they have forsaken Me, and have made this place famous and have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents.

Her uncleanness is in her skirts; she did not remember her end, and has gone down astoundingly. There is no comforter for her. O Jehovah, behold my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they did not walk in My statutes, and they despised My judgments, which if a man does, he shall even live in them. And they greatly profaned My sabbaths. And I said, I will pour out My fury on them in the wilderness to destroy them.

So the angel who talked with me said to me, Cry out, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

They should

Why should the Egyptians speak and say, He brought them out for harm, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and be moved to pity as to this evil against Your people.

And will You kill this people as one man? Then the nations who have heard Your fame will speak, saying,

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear, and shall surround us, and shall cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?

Not to us, O Jehovah, not to us, but to Your name give glory, for Your mercy and for Your truth's sake.

O Jehovah, do not grant the desires of the wicked; do not help his wicked plans, lest they praise themselves. Selah.

For he says, Are not my commanders all like kings?

So you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?

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Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which He swore to them, therefore He has slain them in the wilderness.

Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen. Let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.

Why should the nations say, Where now is their God?

But I had pity for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.