Wisdom 18:12-14

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² and they all together, by the one form^[a] of death,
had corpses too many to count.
For the living were not sufficient even to bury them,
since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed.
¹³ For though they had disbelieved everything because of their magic arts,
yet, when their firstborn were destroyed, they acknowledged your people to be God’s child.
¹⁴ For while gentle silence enveloped all things,
and night in its swift course was now half gone,