Wisdom 12:6-8

Wycliffe Bible

⁶ and by the hands of our fathers thou wouldest lose (or destroy) from thy middle sacrament, that is, from Judea, fathers and mothers, authors of souls, that is, of their children, unhelped; [and the fathers and the mothers, authors of the souls unhelped, lose thou wouldest not from thy middle sacrament, by the hands of their fathers and mothers;]

⁷ (so) that our fathers should take the worthy pilgrimage of God’s children, which is to thee the dearworthiest land of all.

⁸ But also thou sparedest these as men, and thou sentest wasps, the before-goers of thine host, (so) that those [or they] should destroy them (by) little and little.