Wisdom 12:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ That the land which of all is most dear to thee might receive a worthy colony of the children of God.

⁸ Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little.

⁹ Not that thou wast unable to bring the wicked under the just by war, or by cruel beasts, or with one rough word to destroy them at once: