Wisdom 18:10–18
10But the discordant cry of the enemies echoed back, and a pitiful voice of lamentation for children was spread abroad.↗
11Both servant and master were punished with the same just doom, and the commoner suffering the same as king;↗
12Yes, they all together, under one form of death, had corpses without number. For the living were not sufficient even to bury them, Since at a single stroke, their most cherished offspring was consumed.↗
13For while they were disbelieving all things by reason of the enchantments, upon the destruction of the firstborn they confessed the people to be God’s children.↗
14For while peaceful silence wrapped all things, and night in her own swiftness was half spent,↗
15your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, a stern warrior, into the midst of the doomed land,↗
16bearing as a sharp sword your authentic commandment, and standing, it filled all things with death, and while it touched the sky it stood upon the earth.↗
17Then immediately apparitions in dreams terribly troubled them, and unexpected fears came upon them.↗
18And each, one thrown here half dead, another there, made known why he was dying;↗
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