Wisdom 18:12-14

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² and they all together, by the one form of death,
had corpses too many to count.
For the living were not sufficient even to bury them,
since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed.
¹³ For though they had disbelieved everything because of their magic arts,
yet, when their first-born were destroyed, they acknowledged thy people to be God’s son.
¹⁴ For while gentle silence enveloped all things,
and night in its swift course was now half gone,