Deuteronomy 32:25-27

Modern English Version

²⁵ The sword outside and terror within will destroy both the young man and the virgin,
    the infant along with the man of gray hair.
²⁶ I said, “I want to cut them into pieces,
    I will cause the memory of them to disappear from among men,”
²⁷ however, I feared the wrath of the enemy,
    that their adversaries would misunderstand
and say, “Our hand is victorious,
    and the Lord has not done all this.”