Wisdom 19 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1But upon the ungodly there came unto the end indignation without mercy;

the doom which they deserved was drawing them unto this end,

And it made them forget the things that had befallen them,

That they might journey on by a marvellous road,

But they themselves might find a strange death.

6 servants might be guarded free from hurt.

7 By which they passed over with all their hosts,

bearing cattle lice,

And instead of fish the river cast up race of birds,

When, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties;

12For, to solace them, beforehand by the force of the thunders;

For justly did they suffer through their own wickednesses,

grievous indeed was the hatred which they practised toward guests.

14 For whereas the men of Sodom the strangers when they came among them;

visit the men of Sodom after another sort,

divined from the sight of the things that are come to pass.

19For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatures of the waters,

And creatures that swim trode now upon the earth:

20 melted they the ice-like grains of ambrosial food, that were of nature apt to melt.

22For in all things, O Lord, thou didst magnify thy people,

And thou didst glorify them and not lightly regard them;

Standing by their side in every time and place.