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I would have said: I will cut them to pieces and blot out the memory of them from mankind,
Deuteronomy 32:26 In-Context
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I will send wasting famine against them, consuming pestilence and deadly plague; I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts, the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
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In the street the sword will make them childless; in their homes terror will reign. The young men and young women will perish, the infants and those with gray hair.
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I said I would scatter them and erase their name from human memory,
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but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest the adversary misunderstand and say, ‘Our hand has triumphed; the LORD has not done all this.’ ”
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They are a nation without sense, there is no discernment in them.