Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.
But Y delayede for þe yre of enemyes, lest perauenture þe enemyes of hem shulden be proude, and seie, Oure hiy hond, and not þe Lord, dide alle þese thingis.