Deuteronomy 32:25-27

The Voice

²⁵     While the sword is killing their children outside,
        they’ll be huddling in terror inside their homes.
    Everyone will be destroyed: young men and women,
        infants and old people with gray hair.
²⁶     I thought I would smash them in pieces
        until no one remembered they ever existed,
²⁷     But I was afraid of how their enemies would gloat,
        how their opponents would get the wrong impression and say,
    “We conquered them by our own power;
        the Eternal didn’t do all of this!”