Wisdom 12:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ their merciless slaughter^[a] of children,
and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood.
These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,^[b]
6 these parents who murder helpless lives,
you willed to destroy by the hands of our ancestors,
⁷ so that the land most precious of all to you
might receive a worthy colony of the servants^[c] of God.