Wisdom 18:3-5

New Catholic Bible

³ Instead of darkness, you provided for your people a pillar of fire
    to guide them on their unfamiliar journey,
    and a gentle sun for their glorious pilgrimage.
⁴ But their enemies deserved to be denied light and to be incarcerated in darkness,
    for they had made prisoners of your children
    through whom the incorruptible light of your law was to be given to the world.^[a]

⁵ After they had decided to slay the infants of your holy ones,
    and just a single boy^[b] had been abandoned and rescued,
you in retribution carried off a multitude of their sons
    and destroyed them all in the raging waters.