Wisdom 18:19–25
19for the dreams, disturbing them, forewarned them of this, that they might not perish without knowing why they were afflicted.↗
20The experience of death also touched the righteous, and a multitude were destroyed in the wilderness, but the wrath didn’t last long.↗
21For a blameless man hurried to be their champion, bringing the weapon of his own ministry, prayer, and the atoning sacrifice of incense. He withstood the indignation and set an end to the calamity, showing that he was your servant.↗
22And he overcame the anger, not by strength of body, not by force of weapons, but by his word, he subdued the avenger by bringing to remembrance oaths and covenants made with the fathers.↗
23For when the dead had already fallen in heaps one upon another, he intervened and stopped the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.↗
24For the whole world was pictured on his long robe, and the glories of the fathers were upon the engraving of the four rows of precious stones, and your majesty was upon the diadem on his head.↗
25The destroyer yielded to these, and they feared; for it was enough only to test the wrath.↗
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