Wisdom 18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Wisdom of Solomon 18Light Shines on the Israelites

1 heard their voices but did not see their forms

and counted them happy for not having suffered

2 though previously wronged, were doing them no injury,

and they begged their pardon for having been at variance with them.

3 unknown journey

and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.

4 deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned in darkness,

those who had kept your children imprisoned,

through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.

The Death of the Egyptian Firstborn

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10 of death

had corpses too many to count.

For the living were not sufficient even to bury them,

since in one instant their most valued children had been destroyed.

13 not by strength of body,

not by force of arms,

but by his word he subdued the avenger,

appealing to the oaths and covenants given to our ancestors.

23 feared,

for merely to test the wrath was enough.