Wisdom 19:2-4

Common English Bible

² after agreeing to send your people away, and in fact sending them away in haste, their enemies would change their minds and pursue them. ³ And so, even as they still held in their arms those whom they mourned and even as they still raised up their laments at the graves of their dead, another thoughtless plan occurred to them. They decided to pursue those who had fled even after they had agreed to their request to send them away. ⁴ A fate they fully deserved drew them to this inevitable decision and made them forget about all the things that had so recently happened to them. All this took place so that they might complete the one punishment lacking in their sufferings.