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Wisdom 19:5 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" and that your people might journey on by a marvelous road, but they themselves might find a strange death. "
Wisdom 19:5
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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.
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,
5 and that your people might journey on by a marvelous road, but they themselves might find a strange death.
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.
7 Then the cloud that overshadowed the camp was seen, and dry land rising up out of what had been water, out of the Red sea an unhindered highway, and a grassy plain out of the violent surge,
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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 19:6
"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."
Wisdom 19:7
"Then the cloud that overshadowed the camp was seen, and dry land rising up out of what had been water, out of the Red sea an unhindered highway, and a grassy plain out of the violent surge,"
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