Wisdom 12:8

8 Nevertheless even those Thou spared as men and didst send wasps, forerunners of Thine host, to destroy them little by little.

Wisdom 12:8 In-Context

6 with their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents who killed with their own hands souls destitute of help;

7 that the land, which Thou esteemed above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God's children.

8 Nevertheless even those Thou spared as men and didst send wasps, forerunners of Thine host, to destroy them little by little.

9 Not that Thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts or with one rough word,

10 but, executing Thy judgments upon them little by little, Thou gavest them room for repentance, not being ignorant that they were an evil generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.