Wisdom 19:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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,
⁵ and that your people might experience^[a] an incredible journey,
but they themselves might meet a strange death.