Wisdom 17:1-3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

17 Great are thy judgments and hard to describe;
therefore uninstructed souls have gone astray.
² For when lawless men supposed that they held the holy nation in their power,
they themselves lay as captives of darkness and prisoners of long night,
shut in under their roofs, exiles from eternal providence.
³ For thinking that in their secret sins they were unobserved
behind a dark curtain of forgetfulness,
they were scattered, terribly^[a] alarmed,
and appalled by specters.