Wisdom 12:26-27

New Catholic Bible

²⁶ However, those who have paid no heed to the warning of mild rebukes
    will experience the full weight of God’s judgment.
²⁷ They were angered at their suffering,
    finding themselves punished because of those creatures they had regarded as gods.
But then they saw and recognized as the true God
    the one whom previously they had refused to know,
    and with this the very height of condemnation fell upon them.^[a]