Wisdom 18:17
Good News Translation
At that moment the people who were about to die had terrible nightmares and were seized by sudden fear.

New Revised Standard Version
Then at once apparitions in dreadful dreams greatly troubled them, and unexpected fears assailed them;

Contemporary English Version
Many of the Egyptians died a dreadful death that night, but not before nightmares and terrifying dreams showed them why they were being punished.

New American Bible
Then, at once, visions in horrible dreams perturbed them and unexpected fears assailed them;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then suddenly visions of evil dreams troubled them, and fears unlooked for came upon them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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.

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

Wisdom 18:19
For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish, and not know why they suffered these evils.

Context
Wisdom 18
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. 18And one thrown here, another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.…
Cross References
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.

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

Wisdom 18:19
For the visions that troubled them foreshewed these things, lest they should perish, and not know why they suffered these evils.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 18:16
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