Wisdom 5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Wisdom of Solomon 5

1 see them, they will be shaken with dreadful fear,

and they will be amazed at the unexpected salvation of the righteous.

3 carried by the wind

and like a light frost driven away by a storm;

it is dispersed like smoke before the wind,

and it passes like the remembrance of a guest who stays but a day.

The Reward of the Righteous

15 will take his zeal as his whole armor

and will arm all creation to repel his enemies;

18 Isa 59.17, 18; Eph 6.14; 1 Thess 5.8 he will put on righteousness as a breastplate

and wear impartial justice as a helmet;

19 Eph 6.16 he will take holiness as an invincible shield

20 Sir 39.23–30; Heb 4.12 and sharpen stern wrath for a sword,

and the world will join him to fight against the senseless.

21 v 12 ; Ps 7.12, 13; 2 Esd 16.13Shafts of lightning will fly with true aim

and will leap from the clouds to the target, as from a well-drawn bow,

22 Gen 6.17; Josh 10.11; Judg 5.21 and hailstones full of wrath will be hurled as from a catapult;

the water of the sea will rage against them,

and rivers will relentlessly overwhelm them;

23 Isa 41.16; Lk 1.52 a mighty wind will rise against them,

and like a tempest it will winnow them away.

Lawlessness will lay waste the whole earth,

and evildoing will overturn the thrones of rulers.