Deuteronomy 32:25-27

New International Version - UK

²⁵ In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror will reign.
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with grey hair.
²⁶ I said I would scatter them
    and erase their name from human memory,
²⁷ but I dreaded the taunt of the enemy,
    lest the adversary misunderstand
and say, “Our hand has triumphed;
    the Lord has not done all this.”’