Deuteronomy 32:25-27

251Outside the sword will bereave, And inside terror-- 2Both young man and virgin, The nursling with the man of gray hair.26I would have said, “3I will cut them to pieces, 4I will remove the memory of them from men,”27Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, That their adversaries would misjudge, That they would say, “5Our hand is 6triumphant, And the Lord has not done all this.”’