Good News Translation
but these people, who had earlier welcomed the foreigners with happy celebrations and treated them as equals, later made them suffer cruelly.

New Revised Standard Version
For the elements changed places with one another, as on a harp the notes vary the nature of the rhythm, while each note remains the same. This may be clearly inferred from the sight of what took place.

New American Bible
For the elements, in ever-changing harmony, like strings of the harp, produce new melody, while the flow of music steadily persists. And this can be perceived exactly from a review of what took place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door.

But they were struck with blindness: as those others were at the doors of the just man, when they were covered with sudden darkness, and every one sought the passage of his own door.

Wisdom 19:14
And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.

Wisdom 19:15
But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws.

Wisdom 19:17
For while the elements are changed in themselves, as in an instrument the sound of the quality is changed, yet all keep their sound: which may clearly be perceived by the very sight.

Wisdom 19:18
For the things of the land were turned into things of the water: and the things that before swam in the water passed upon the land.