Wisdom 18:2-4

Revised Standard Version

² and were thankful that thy holy ones,^[a] though previously wronged, were doing them no injury;
and they begged their pardon for having been at variance with them.^[b]
3 Therefore thou didst provide a flaming pillar of fire
as a guide for thy people’s^[c] unknown journey,
and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.
⁴ For their enemies^[d] deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness,
those who had kept thy sons imprisoned,
through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.