Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation When lawless people imagined that they had your holy nation in their power, they were themselves imprisoned in a long night of darkness. They lay in their own houses, shut off from your eternal care. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge 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 16:29For 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. Context Wisdom 17…1For thy judgments, O Lord, are great, and thy words cannot be expressed: therefore undisciplined souls have erred. 2For 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. 3And 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.… Cross References 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. |