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Wisdom 19:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" And moreover they were stricken with loss of sight (even as were those others at the righteous man’s doors), when, being surrounded with yawning darkness, they each looked for the passage through his own door. "
Wisdom 19:17
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15 And not only so, but while punishment of some sort will come upon the former, since they received as enemies those who were aliens;
16 because these first welcomed with feastings, and then afflicted with dreadful toils, those who had already shared with them in the same rights.
17 And moreover they were stricken with loss of sight (even as were those others at the righteous man’s doors), when, being surrounded with yawning darkness, they each looked for the passage through his own door.
18 For as the notes of a lute vary the character of the rhythm, even so the elements, changing their order one with another, continuing always in its sound, as may clearly be conjectured from the sight of the things that have happened.
19 For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatures of the waters, and creatures that swim moved upon the land.
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Wisdom 19:1
"But indignation without mercy came upon the ungodly to the end; for God also foreknew their future,"
Wisdom 19:2
"how, having changed their minds to let your people go, and having sped them eagerly on their way, they would change their minds and pursue them."
Wisdom 19:3
"For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they made another foolish decision, and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged to leave and driven out."
Wisdom 19:4
"For the doom which they deserved was drawing them to this end, and it made them forget the things that had happened to them, that they might fill up the punishment which was yet lacking from their torments,"
Wisdom 19:5
"and that your people might journey on by a marvelous road, but they themselves might find a strange death."
Wisdom 19:6
"For the whole creation, each part in its diverse kind, was made new again, complying with your commandments, that your servants might be kept unharmed."
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