From the book of the Wisdom of Solomon (a Deuterocanonical book) Chapter 19:1-5
Wisdom 19
19:1 But the godless were assailed by merciless anger to the very end, for he knew beforehand what they would do,
19:2 how, after letting his people leave and hastening their departure, they would change their minds and give chase.
19:3 They were actually still conducting their mourning rites and lamenting at the tombs of their dead, when another mad scheme came into their heads and they set out to pursue, as though runaways, the people whom they had expelled and begged to go.
19:4 A well-deserved fate urged them to this extreme and made them forget what had already happened, so that they would add to their torments the one punishment outstanding
19:5 and, while your people were experiencing a journey contrary to all expectations, would themselves meet an extraordinary death.
Culled from the Good News Bible with Deuterocanonical Book