26 I would have said: “I will scatter them;

I will make the memory of them cease from among men,”

27 If not for my dread of the enemy’s reaction,+

Because the adversaries might misconstrue it.+

They might say: “Our power has triumphed;+

It was not Jehovah who did all of this.”

 8 But he saved them for the sake of his name,+

To make his mightiness known.+