Good News Translation
You knew that even though they let your people go and made them leave quickly, they would change their minds and pursue them.

New Revised Standard Version
how, though they themselves had permitted your people to depart and hastily sent them out, they would change their minds and pursue them.

Contemporary English Version
how they would change their minds and chase your people, after hurriedly setting them free.

New American Bible
That though they themselves had agreed to the departure and had anxiously sent them on their way, they would regret it and pursue them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them.

For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them.

Wisdom 18:26
And to these the destroyer gave place, and was afraid of them: for the proof only of wrath was enough.

Wisdom 19:1
But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew before also what they would do:

Wisdom 19:3
For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:

Wisdom 19:4
For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments: