Wisdom 18:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ Therefore thou didst provide a flaming pillar of fire
as a guide for thy people’s^[a] unknown journey,
and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.
⁴ For their enemies^[b] deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness,
those who had kept thy sons imprisoned,
through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.

⁵ When they had resolved to kill the babes of thy holy ones,
and one child had been exposed and rescued,
thou didst in punishment take away a multitude of their children;
and thou didst destroy them all together by a mighty flood.