26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces
and blot out their memory from mankind,
27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
lest their adversaries misunderstand and say:
‘Our own hand has prevailed;
it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel,
with no understanding among them.
— Deuteronomy 32:26-28