Wisdom 12:19-21

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ Through such works you have taught your people
that the righteous must be kind,
and you have filled your children with good hope,
because you give repentance for sins.
²⁰ For if you punished with such great care and indulgence^[a]
the enemies of your servants^[b] and those deserving of death,
granting them time and opportunity to give up their wickedness,
²¹ with what strictness you have judged your children,
to whose ancestors you gave oaths and covenants full of good promises!