Wisdom 12:6

6 these parents who murder helpless lives, you willed to destroy by the hands of our ancestors,

Wisdom 12:6 In-Context

4 you hated for their detestable practices, their works of sorcery and unholy rites,

5 their merciless slaughter of children, and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood. These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,

6 these parents who murder helpless lives, you willed to destroy by the hands of our ancestors,

7 so that the land most precious of all to you might receive a worthy colony of the servants of God.

8 But even these you spared, since they were but mortals, and sent wasps as forerunners of your army to destroy them little by little,