Wisdom 18:13-15

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹³ For though they had disbelieved everything because of their magic arts,
yet, when their firstborn were destroyed, they acknowledged your people to be God’s child.
¹⁴ For while gentle silence enveloped all things,
and night in its swift course was now half gone,
¹⁵ your all-powerful word leapt from heaven, from the royal throne,
into the midst of the land that was doomed,
a stern warrior