From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 11:6-20
11:6 Whereas their enemies had only the ever-flowing source of a river fouled with mingled blood and mud,
11:7 to punish them for their decree of infanticide, you gave your people, against all hope, water in abundance,
11:8 once you had shown by the thirst that they were experiencing how severely you were punishing their enemies.
11:9 From their own ordeals, which were only loving correction, they realised how an angry sentence was tormenting the godless;
11:10 for you had tested your own as a father admonishes, but the others you had punished as a pitiless king condemns,
11:11 and, whether far or near, they were equally afflicted.
11:12 For a double sorrow seized on them, and a groaning at the memory of the past;
11:13 when they learned that the punishments they were receiving were beneficial to the others, they realised it was the Lord,
11:14 while for the man whom long before they had exposed and later mockingly rebuffed, they felt only admiration when all was done, having suffered a thirst so different from that of the upright.
11:15 For their foolish and wicked notions which led them astray into worshipping mindless reptiles and contemptible beetles, you sent a horde of mindless animals to punish them
11:16 and to teach them that the agent of sin is the agent of punishment.
11:17 And indeed your all-powerful hand which created the world from formless matter, did not lack means to unleash a horde of bears or savage lions on them
11:18 or unknown beasts, newly created, full of rage, breathing out fire, or puffing out stinking smoke, or flashing fearful sparks from their eyes,
11:19 beasts able not only to destroy them, being so savage, but even to strike them dead by their terrifying appearance.
11:20 However, without these, one breath could have blown them over, pursued by Justice, whirled away by the breath of your power. You, however, ordered all things by measure, number and weight.
Culled from the Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Books