From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 18:1-4
18:1 For your holy ones, however, there was a very great light. The Egyptians, who could hear them but not see them, called them fortunate because they had not suffered too;
18:2 they thanked them for doing no injury in return for previous wrongs and asked forgiveness for their past ill-will.
18:3 In contrast to the darkness, you gave your people a pillar of blazing fire to guide them on their unknown journey, a mild sun for their ambitious migration.
18:4 But well those others deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness, for they had kept in captivity your children, by whom the incorruptible light of the Law was to be given to the world.
Culled from the Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Book