Wisdom of Solomon, chapter 18

Chapter 18: 1 - 25 (translated by Edgar Goodspeed)
"But Your holy ones enjoyed a very great light; and their enemies, hearing their voices but not seeing their forms, thought them happy, because they had not suffered, but they were thankful because the holy, though they had before them been wronged, did not hurt them, and prayed /to be separated from them/ having been ones separated from them.
Therefore You provided a blazing pillar as guide on Your people's unknown journey, and an unharmful sun for their honorable exile. For their enemies deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness who had kept Your children shut up, through whom the imperishable light of the Law was to be given to the world. When they plotted to kill the babies of the holy ones, though one child had been exposed and saved, to rebuke them You took from them a multitude of their children, and destroyed them all together in a mighty flood. That night was made known to our forefathers beforehand, so that they should know certainly what oaths they had believed, and rejoice. The preservation of the upright and the destruction of their enemies were expected by Your people; for in punishing their adversaries, You called us to You and glorified us. For in secret the holy children of good people offered the sacrifice, and with one accord agreed to the divine law, that they should share alike the same blessings and dangers, and/ were already beginning to sing the praises of their forefathers/ the ancesters already leading the songs of praise / when there echoed back the discordant shout of their enemies, and the piteous sound of lamentation for children spread abroad; but slave was punished with master, with the same penalty, and the commoner suffered the same as the king, and all of them together under one form/name of death had countless corpses. For those who were alive were not even enough to bury them, for in one instant their most valued children were destroyed. For though they disbelieved everything because of their enchantments, when the first-born were destroyed, they acknowledged that the people was God's son/child. For when gentle silence enveloped everything, and night was midway of her swift course, Your all-powerful Word/Logos leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, a stern warrior, into the midst of the doomed land, carrying for a sharp sword Your undisguised command, and stood still, and filled all things with death, and touched heaven but walked upon the earth. Then suddenly apparitions in dreadful dreams startled them, and unlooked-for fears assailed them, and one thrown here half-dead, another there, showed why they were dying, for the dreams that had alarmed them warned them of it, so that they should not perish without knowing why they suffered.
But the experience of death affected the upright also, and a multitude were destroyed in the desert. But the wrath did not continue long. For a blameless man hurried to fight in their defense, bringing the great shield of his ministering, prayer and the propitiation of incense; he withstood that wrath and put an end to the disaster, showing that he was a servant of Yours; but he overcame the anger/wrath not by bodily strength, nor by force of arms, but by his word he (Aaron) subdued the chastiser, when he appealed to the oaths and agreements given to the forefathers. For when the dead had already fallen on one another in heaps, he stood between and cut the wrath short and cut off its way to the living. For on his long robe was the whole world, and the glories of the forefathers were in the carving of the four rows of stones, and Your majesty was on the diadem upon his head, before these the destroyer gave way, and these he feared, for that experience of wrath was enough by itself.