Deuteronomy 32:25-27

25The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

26“I said, ‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed.

27But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say, “Our power is great, and the Lord has not done all this!”’