From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 18:5-19
18:5 As they had resolved to kill the infants of the holy ones, and as of those exposed only one child had been saved, you punished them by carrying off their horde of children and by destroying them all in the wild water.
18:6 That night had been known in advance to our ancestors, so that, well knowing him in whom they had put their trust, they would be sure of his promises.
18:7 Your people thus were waiting both for the rescue of the upright and for the ruin of the enemy;
18:8 for by the very vengeance that you exacted on our adversaries, you glorified us by calling us to you.
18:9 So the holy children of the good offered sacrifice in secret and with one accord enacted this holy law: that the holy ones should share good things and dangers alike; and forthwith they chanted the hymns of the ancestors.
18:10 In echo came the discordant cries of their enemies, and the pitiful wails of people mourning for their children could be heard from far away.
18:11 One and the same punishment had struck slave and master alike, and now commoner and king had the same sufferings to endure.
18:12 Struck by the same death, all had innumerable dead. There were not enough living left to bury them, for, at one stroke, the flower of their offspring had perished.
18:13 Those whose spells had made them completely incredulous, when faced with the destruction of their first-born, acknowledged this people to be child of God.
18:14 When peaceful silence lay over all, and night had run the half of her swift course,
18:15 down from the heavens, from the royal throne, leapt your all-powerful Word like a pitiless warrior into the heart of a land doomed to destruction. Carrying your unambiguous command like a sharp sword,
18:16 it stood, and filled the universe with death; though standing on the earth, it touched the sky.
18:17 Immediately, dreams and gruesome visions overwhelmed them with terror, unexpected fears assailed them.
18:18 Hurled down, some here, some there, half dead, they were able to say why they were dying;
18:19 for the dreams that had troubled them had warned them why beforehand, so that they should not perish without knowing why they were being afflicted.
Culled from the Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Book