For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

For while the wicked thought to be able to have dominion over the holy nation, they themselves being fettered with the bonds of darkness, and a long night, shut up in their houses, lay there exiled from the eternal providence.

Wisdom 16:29
For the hope of the unthankful shall melt away as the winter's ice, and shall run off as unprofitable water.

Wisdom 17:1
For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred.

Wisdom 17:3
And while they thought to lie hid in their obscure sins, they were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfullness, being horribly afraid, and troubled with exceeding great astonishment.

Wisdom 17:4
For neither did the den that held them, keep them from fear: for noises coming down troubled them, and sad visions appearing to them, affrighted them.