Deuteronomy

²⁵Without shall the sword bereave, And in the chambers terror; It shall destroy both young man and virgin, The suckling with the man of gray hairs. ²⁶I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: ²⁷Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misdeem, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And the Lord hath not done all this. ²⁸For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them. ²⁹Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end! ³⁰How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And the Lord had delivered them up? ³¹For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.