Wisdom 12:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷     so that the land cherished by you above all others
    might receive a worthy colony of children of God.
^{8     [a]}But even these, since they were men, you spared,
    and you sent wasps as forerunners of your army
    to exterminate them little by little.
⁹ It was well within your power to have the godless vanquished in battle by the righteous
    or to destroy them in an instant by savage beasts or by one stern word.