Wisdom of Solomon 16:5–7

For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon thy people,

And they were perishing by the bites of crooked serpents,

Thy wrath continued not to the uttermost;

But for admonition were they troubled for a short space,

Having a token of salvation,

To put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law:

For he that turned toward it was not saved by that which he saw,

But by thee, the Saviour of all.