Deuteronomy 32:25-27

Good News Translation

²⁵ War will bring death in the streets;
    terrors will strike in the homes.
Young men and young women will die;
    neither babies nor old people will be spared.
²⁶ I would have destroyed them completely,
    so that no one would remember them.
²⁷ But I could not let their enemies boast
    that they had defeated my people,
    when it was I myself who had crushed them.’