Wisdom 18:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just, one child being cast forth, and saved, to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them all together in a mighty water.

⁶ For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage.

⁷ So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction of the unjust.