Wisdom 12:6

6 these parents who murder helpless lives, thou didst will to destroy by the hands of our fathers,

Wisdom 12:6 In-Context

4 thou didst hate 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, thou didst will to destroy by the hands of our fathers,

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

8 But even these thou didst spare, since they were but men, and didst send wasps as forerunners of thy army, to destroy them little by little,