Deuteronomy 32:25-27

25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”