Wisdom 19:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ But the latter, after first welcoming them with festive celebrations,
    afterward oppressed with terrible sufferings
    those who had already shared with them the same rights.
¹⁷ Therefore, they were also struck with blindness,^[a]
    like the sinners at the door of the righteous man,
when, surrounded by yawning darkness,
    all of them had to grope their way to their own doorways.

¹⁸ A new arrangement of the elements occurred,
    just as the strings of a harp can produce varied rhythms
    while each note remains the same.
This can be clearly perceived
    from an observation of what took place.