Wisdom 16:24-26

New Catholic Bible

²⁴ For creation, at the service of you, its maker,
    strains mightily to effect the punishment of the wicked,
    but relaxes for the benefit of those who trust in you.
²⁵ Therefore, at that time too, it was transformed in endless ways
    to serve your all-nourishing bounty,
    according to the desires of those in need,
²⁶ so that your beloved children, O Lord, might learn
    that it is not the various crops of the earth that nourish them,
    but it is your word that sustains those who trust in you.^[a]