Wisdom 18:12-14

Common English Bible

¹² Countless bodies lay around, united together by a common name: death. There weren’t even enough of the living left to bury the dead! In one fleeting moment, their most valued children were destroyed. ¹³ Because of their misguided casting of spells and drug use, they didn’t believe until it was too late.

As a result, all their oldest males were destroyed. It was only then that they acknowledged your people to be your children. ¹⁴ It was then, while everything was wrapped in a gentle silence, and half a night had already passed,