Wisdom 19:2-4

New Catholic Bible

² that although they had agreed to let his people go
    and had hastened to send them forth,
    they would have a change of heart and pursue them.
³ For while they were still conducting their funeral rites
    and mourning at the tombs of their dead,
they made another rash decision
    and pursued as fugitives
    those whom they had entreated to leave and had sent away.
⁴ For the fate they deserved urged them on to this decision
    and made them forget what had already befallen them,
so that they might experience the full range of torments required to complete their punishment,