Deuteronomy 32:25-27

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁵ In the street the sword will take away their children.
Inside the houses terror will fill young man and
    young woman alike,
the nursing child, together with the gray-haired old man.
²⁶ I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces.
I will erase their memory from mankind,”
²⁷ if I had not dreaded the taunting of the enemy.
I did not want their adversaries to misunderstand.
I did not want them to say,
“Our hand is high-and-mighty,
and the Lord has not done any of this.”