Wisdom 16:2-4
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
2 Instead of this punishment you showed kindness to your people,
and you prepared quails to eat,
a delicacy to satisfy the desire of appetite;
3 in order that those people, when they desired food,
might lose the least remnant of appetite[a]
because of the odious creatures sent to them,
while your people,[b] after suffering want a short time,
might partake of delicacies.
4 For it was necessary that upon those oppressors inescapable want should come,
while to these others it was merely shown how their enemies were being tormented.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 16:3 Gk loathed the necessary appetite
- Wisdom 16:3 Gk they
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