Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation When your enemies were carrying out their resolve to kill the babies of your holy people, there was one child who was abandoned but later rescued. Then you punished your enemies by killing a great number of their own children. You drowned their whole army at one time in the rushing waters. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water. Wisdom 18:3Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment. Wisdom 18:4 The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world. Wisdom 18:6 For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage. Wisdom 18:7 So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction of the unjust. Context Wisdom 18…4The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world. 5And whereas they thought to kill the babes of the just: one child being cast forth, and saved to reprove them, thou tookest away a multitude of their children, and destroyedst them altogether in a mighty water. 6For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage.… Cross References Wisdom 18:3 Therefore they received a burning pillar of fire for a guide of the way which they knew not, and thou gavest them a harmless sun of a good entertainment. Wisdom 18:4 The others indeed were worthy to be deprived of light, and imprisoned in darkness, who kept thy children shut up, by whom the pure light of the law was to be given to the world. Wisdom 18:6 For that night was known before by our fathers, that assuredly knowing what oaths they had trusted to, they might be of better courage. Wisdom 18:7 So thy people received the salvation of the just, and destruction of the unjust. |