Wisdom 17:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

17 For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

² For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

³ And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, being horribly afraid and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.