Wisdom 19:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² For when they had given them leave to depart, and had sent them away with great care, they repented, and pursued after them.

³ For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:

⁴ For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments: