Deuteronomy 32:26
Good News Translation
I would have destroyed them completely, so that no one would remember them.

New Revised Standard Version
I thought to scatter them and blot out the memory of them from humankind;

Contemporary English Version
"I wanted to scatter you, so no one would remember that you had ever lived.

New American Bible
I said: I will make an end of them and blot out their name from human memory,

Douay-Rheims Bible
I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

Deuteronomy 28:25,37,64 The Lord make thee to fall down before thy enemies, one way mayst thou go out against them, and flee seven ways, and be scattered throughout all the kingdoms of the earth. . . .

Leviticus 26:33,38 And I will scatter you among the Gentiles: and I will draw out the sword after you. And your land shall be desert, and your cities destroyed. . . .

Isaiah 63:16 For thou art our father, and Abraham hath not known us, and Israel hath been ignorant of us: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer, from everlasting is thy name.

Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captives into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by the Gentiles till the times of the nations be fulfilled.

Context
The Song of Moses
25Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years. 26I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.27But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:27
And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

Deuteronomy 9:14
Let me alone that I may destroy them, and abolish their name from under heaven, and set thee over a nation, that is greater and stronger than this.

Deuteronomy 28:64
The Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the farthest parts of the earth to the ends thereof: and there thou shalt serve strange gods, which both thou art ignorant of and thy fathers, wood and stone.

Isaiah 48:11
For my own sake, for my own sake will I do it, that I may not be blasphemed: and I will not give my glory to another.

Deuteronomy 32:25
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