Wisdom 19:11
Good News Translation
Later, when they desperately wanted better food, quails came up from the sea to satisfy their hunger. The quail was a bird they had never seen before.

New Revised Standard Version
The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder, for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts; for they practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.

Contemporary English Version
Later, when they were starving in the desert and begged for something delicious to eat, you provided them with a special kind of bird,

New American Bible
And the punishments came upon the sinners not without forewarnings from the violence of the thunderbolts. For they justly suffered for their own misdeeds, since they treated their guests with the more grievous hatred.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats.

Wisdom 19:9
For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.

Wisdom 19:10
For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.

Wisdom 19:12
For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.

Wisdom 19:13
For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.

Context
Wisdom 19
10For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes. 11And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats. 12For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.…
Cross References
Wisdom 19:9
For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.

Wisdom 19:10
For they were yet mindful of those things which had been done in the time of their sojourning, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.

Wisdom 19:12
For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.

Wisdom 19:13
For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 19:10
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