Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation While the Egyptians were still mourning at the graves of their dead, they forgot why all this had happened, and they foolishly decided that the people they had begged to leave were runaways. So they chased after them. They were led into this as part of the punishment they deserved, so that they would suffer the rest of the torments they were due to receive. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone: Wisdom 19:1But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew before also what they would do: Wisdom 19:2 For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them. Wisdom 19:4 For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments: Wisdom 19:5 And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death. Context Wisdom 19…2For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them. 3For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone: 4For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:… Cross References Wisdom 19:1 But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew before also what they would do: Wisdom 19:2 For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them. Wisdom 19:4 For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments: Wisdom 19:5 And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death. |