There’s a fundamental difference between human beings as moral agents choosing to do evil, which is what the Egyptians did when they killed the Hebrew infants, and universal laws coming around inexorably to harm innocents, which was the Tenth Plague when God killed the Egyptian firstborn.

Moses knew what was coming and entreated Rameses to free the slaves precisely to avoid the deaths of innocents. Innocents were already suffering, something Moses wanted to stop, and as far as I know this is a natural extrapolation from Jewish tradition and theology which acknowledge and grieve that suffering and death.

Or, to quote a passage I just read today (this is from the prologue of The Stone Sky, the third book of the Broken Earth trilogy, but it’s not an actual spoiler and can apply to all three books):

Say nothing to me of innocent bystanders, unearned suffering, heartless vengeance. When a [community] builds atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever was stupid enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that they were built doomed in the first place.