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Wisdom 10:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly, and they sang praise to your holy name, O Lord, and extolled with one accord your hand that fought for them, "
Wisdom 10:20
Verse in Context
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18 She brought them over the Red sea, and led them through much water;
19 but she drowned their enemies, and she cast them up from the bottom of the deep.
20 Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly, and they sang praise to your holy name, O Lord, and extolled with one accord your hand that fought for them,
21 because wisdom opened the mouth of the mute, and made the tongues of babes to speak clearly.
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Wisdom 10:1
"Wisdom guarded to the end the first formed father of the world, who was created alone, and delivered him out of his own transgression,"
Wisdom 10:2
"and gave him strength to rule over all things."
Wisdom 10:3
"But when an unrighteous man fell away from her in his anger, he perished himself in the rage with which he killed his brother."
Wisdom 10:4
"When for his cause the earth was drowning with a flood, wisdom again saved it, guiding the righteous man’s course by a paltry piece of wood."
Wisdom 10:5
"Moreover, when nations consenting together in wickedness had been confounded, wisdom knew the righteous man, and preserved him blameless to God, and kept him strong when his heart yearned toward his child."
Wisdom 10:6
"While the ungodly were perishing, wisdom delivered a righteous man, when he fled from the fire that descended out of heaven on the five cities."
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