Wisdom 19:2-4

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

² that, though they themselves had permitted^[a] thy people to depart
and hastily sent them forth,
they would change their minds and pursue them.
³ For while they were still busy at mourning,
and were lamenting at the graves of their dead,
they reached another foolish decision,
and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged and compelled to depart.
⁴ For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end,
and made them forget what had happened,
in order that they might fill up the punishment which their torments still lacked,