Deuteronomy 32:25-27

Common English Bible

²⁵ Outside, in the streets, the sword will bereave!
    Inside, in the safest room, there will be terror
        for young men and women,
        nursing baby and senior citizen.
²⁶ I thought about it: I could have struck them down,^[a]
    erased them from human memory,
²⁷         but their enemies’ rage concerned me;
        their opponents might misunderstand.
They might say, “Our strong hands,
    not the Lord’s, did all this,”