Deuteronomy 32:26-28

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁶ I thought to scatter them^[a]
    and blot out the memory of them from humankind;
²⁷ 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.’