Good News Translation
The short night was half over, and all was quiet and peaceful,

New Revised Standard Version
For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone,

Contemporary English Version
In the middle of the night--when all was peaceful and quiet--

New American Bible
For when peaceful stillness encompassed everything and the night in its swift course was half spent,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,

For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,

Wisdom 18:12
So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.

Wisdom 18:13
For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God.

Wisdom 18:15
Thy Almighty word leaped down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction,

Wisdom 18:16
With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth, reached even to heaven.