Wisdom 19:1-3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

19 But the ungodly were assailed to the end by pitiless anger,
for God^[a] knew in advance even their future actions,
² that, though they themselves had permitted^[b] thy people to depart
and hastily sent them forth,
they would change their minds and pursue them.
³ For while they were still busy at mourning,
and were lamenting at the graves of their dead,
they reached another foolish decision,
and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged and compelled to depart.