Wisdom 18:16
Good News Translation
carrying out your firm command with a fearful weapon, standing with feet on the ground and head touching the sky, filling the land with death.

New Revised Standard Version
carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth.

Contemporary English Version
carrying a sharp sword and ready to obey your every command by killing people everywhere. When he stood on the earth, his head touched the sky.

New American Bible
a fierce warrior bearing the sharp sword of your inexorable decree, And alighted, and filled every place with death, and touched heaven, while standing upon the earth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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.

Wisdom 18:14
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,

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 18:17
Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them.

Wisdom 18:18
And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.

Context
Wisdom 18
15Thy Almighty word leaped down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction, 16With 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. 17Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them.…
Cross References
Wisdom 18:14
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,

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 18:17
Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them.

Wisdom 18:18
And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 18:15
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