Wisdom 18:14-18

14 For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone,

15 your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior

16 carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth.

17 Then at once apparitions in dreadful dreams greatly troubled them, and unexpected fears assailed them;

18 and one here and another there, hurled down half dead, made known why they were dying;