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Wisdom 16:1 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" For this cause, they were deservedly punished through creatures like those which they worship, and tormented through a multitude of vermin. "

Wisdom 16:1

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1 For this cause, they were deservedly punished through creatures like those which they worship, and tormented through a multitude of vermin.

2 Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people, prepared quails for food, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of their appetite,

3 to the end that your enemies, desiring food, might for the hideousness of the creatures sent among them, loathe even the necessary appetite; but these, your people, having for a short time suffered lack, might even partake of delicacies.

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Wisdom 11:15

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Wisdom 12:27

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"They were given power, not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a person."

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"They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust."

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Wisdom 16:2

"Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people, prepared quails for food, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of their appetite,"

Wisdom 16:3

"to the end that your enemies, desiring food, might for the hideousness of the creatures sent among them, loathe even the necessary appetite; but these, your people, having for a short time suffered lack, might even partake of delicacies."

Wisdom 16:4

"For it was necessary that inescapable lack should come upon those oppressors, but that to these it should only be showed how their enemies were tormented."

Wisdom 16:5

"For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon your people, and they were perishing by the bites of crooked serpents, your wrath didn’t continue to the uttermost;"

Wisdom 16:6

"but for admonition were they troubled for a short time, having a token of salvation to put them in remembrance of the commandment of your law;"

Wisdom 16:7

"for he who turned toward it was not saved because of that which was seen, but because of you, the Savior of all."

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