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Wisdom of Solomon
chapter 19
(New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

The Red Sea

But the ungodly were assailed to the end by pitiless anger, for God^[a] knew in advance even their future actions:

[a] Gk he

² how, though they themselves had permitted^[b] your people to depart and hastily sent them out, they would change their minds and pursue them.

[b] Other ancient authorities read
had changed their minds to permit

³ For while they were still engaged in mourning
and were lamenting at the graves of their dead,
they reached another foolish decision
and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged and compelled to leave.
⁴ For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end and made them forget what had happened,
in order that they might fill up the punishment that their torments still lacked
⁵ and that your people might experience^[c] an incredible journey, but they themselves might meet a strange death.

[c] Other ancient authorities read accomplish

God Guides and Protects His People

⁶ For the whole creation in its nature was fashioned anew, complying with your commands,
so that your children might be kept unharmed.
⁷ The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp
and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea
and a grassy plain out of the raging waves,
⁸ where those protected by your hand passed through as one nation, after gazing on marvelous wonders.
⁹ For they ranged like horses and leaped like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who delivered them.
¹⁰ For they still recalled the events of their sojourn, how instead of producing animals the earth brought forth gnats, and instead of fish the river spewed out vast numbers of frogs.
¹¹ Afterward they saw also a new kind of bird,
when desire led them to ask for luxurious food,
¹² for, to give them relief, quails came up from the sea.

The Punishment of the Egyptians

¹³ The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder, for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts,
for they practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.
¹⁴ Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them, but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
¹⁵ And not only so, but while punishment of some sort will come upon the former for having received strangers with hostility,
¹⁶ the latter, having first received them with festal celebrations, afterward afflicted with terrible sufferings those who had already shared the same rights.
¹⁷ They were stricken also with loss of sight—
just as were those at the door of the righteous man—when, surrounded by yawning darkness,
all of them tried to find the way through their own doors.

A New Harmony in Nature

¹⁸ For the elements changed^[d] places with one another, as on a harp the notes vary the nature of the rhythm, while each note remains the same.^[e]
This may be clearly inferred from the sight of what took place.

[d] Gk changing
[e] Meaning of Gk uncertain

¹⁹ For land animals were transformed into water creatures, and creatures that swim moved over to the land.
²⁰ Fire even in water retained its normal power,
and water forgot its fire-quenching nature.
²¹ Flames, on the contrary, failed to consume
the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them, nor did they melt^[f] the crystalline, quick-melting kind of heavenly food.

[f] Gk nor could be melted

Conclusion

²² For in everything, O Lord, you have exalted and glorified your people,
and you have not neglected to help them at all times and in all places.

…this ends the book of the Wisdom of Solomon. I will take a week off from sharing apocrypha and start July 20 with The Gospel of Philip.

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