Wisdom Chapter 18: World English Bible Classic

Deuterocanon · Apocrypha · Traducción al español en preparación

Traducción al español en preparación

¹ But for your holy ones there was great light. Their enemies, hearing their voice but not seeing their form, counted it a happy thing that they too had suffered, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

² yet for that they do not hurt them, though wronged by them before, they are thankful; and because they had been at variance with them, they begged for pardon. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

³ Therefore you provided a burning pillar of fire, to be a guide for your people’s unknown journey, and a harmless sun for their glorious exile. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁴ For the Egyptians well deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness, they who had imprisoned your children, through whom the incorruptible light of the law was to be given to the race of men. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁵ After they had taken counsel to kill the babes of the holy ones, and when a single child had been abandoned and saved to convict them of their sin, you took away from them their multitude of children, and destroyed all their army together in a mighty flood. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁶ Our fathers were made aware of that night beforehand, that, having sure knowledge, they might be cheered by the oaths which they had trusted. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁷ Salvation of the righteous and destruction of the enemies was expected by your people. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁸ For as you took vengeance on the adversaries, by the same means, calling us to yourself, you glorified us. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

⁹ For holy children of good men offered sacrifice in secret, and with one consent they agreed to the covenant of the divine law, that they would partake alike in the same good things and the same perils, the fathers already leading the sacred songs of praise. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁰ But the discordant cry of the enemies echoed back, and a pitiful voice of lamentation for children was spread abroad. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹¹ Both servant and master were punished with the same just doom, and the commoner suffering the same as king; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹² Yes, 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. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹³ For 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. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁴ For while peaceful silence wrapped all things, and night in her own swiftness was half spent, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁵ your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, a stern warrior, into the midst of the doomed land, (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁶ bearing 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. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁷ Then immediately apparitions in dreams terribly troubled them, and unexpected fears came upon them. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁸ And each, one thrown here half dead, another there, made known why he was dying; (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

¹⁹ for the dreams, disturbing them, forewarned them of this, that they might not perish without knowing why they were afflicted. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁰ The experience of death also touched the righteous, and a multitude were destroyed in the wilderness, but the wrath didn’t last long. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²¹ For 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. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²² And 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. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²³ For 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. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁴ For 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. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)

²⁵ The destroyer yielded to these, and they feared; for it was enough only to test the wrath. (English source shown until the Spanish translation is ready)