Wisdom 18:21-23

New Catholic Bible

²¹ For a blameless man^[a] hastened to be their champion,
    bearing the weapons of his ministry,
    prayer and propitiating incense;
and he withstood the wrath and put an end to the plague,
    thereby showing that he was indeed your servant.
²² He overcame the wrath
    neither by physical strength nor by force of arms;
rather, by his word he subdued the avenger,^[b]
    calling to mind the oaths and the covenants given to our ancestors.
²³ For when the corpses were already piled up in heaps,
    he intervened and held back the wrath
    and cut off its way to the living.