Wisdom 18:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ Your people thus awaited
    the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of their enemies.
⁸ For you employed the same means to punish our adversaries
    as you did to glorify us when you called us to yourself.
⁹ For the holy children of good people were offering sacrifices in secret,
    and with one accord they agreed to keep the divine law,
so that your holy ones would share alike both blessings and dangers,
    after first chanting the praises of the ancestors.^[a]