Wisdom of Solomon 19:2-4

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² how, though they themselves had permitted^[a] your people to depart
and hastily sent them out,
they would change their minds and pursue them.^(A)
3 For while they were still engaged in 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 leave.
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 that their torments still lacked^(B)