Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 32:27

27 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.

(i. e.) Their rage against me, as it is expressed Isa. 37. 28, 29. their insolent and furious reproaches against my name, as if I were unnatural and cruel to my people or unable to deliver them. Compare Exod. 32. 12. Numb. 14. 13. Deut. 9. 28. Ios. 7. 9. The fear hereof is ascribed to God after the manner of men.

(i. e.) Insolently and arrogantly above what they used to do. Or, make themselves strangers, i. e. either really not acknowledge or pretend they did not know that which I had publickly declared and they either did or easily might have known, to wit, that this judgment was inflicted upon them by my hand for their sins.

Marginal references: Or, our high hand, and not the LORD hath done all this.