Wisdom 17:1-3

Good News Translation

Terror Strikes the Egyptians at Night

17 O Lord, your acts of judgment are marvelous and hard to explain; that is why people who had not been taught about them went astray. ² When lawless people imagined that they had your holy nation in their power, they were themselves imprisoned in a long night of darkness. They lay in their own houses, shut off from your eternal care. ³ They thought that their sins had been secret and unnoticed, shielded from view by a dark curtain of forgetfulness, but now they were horribly afraid, confused, and terrified by ghostly forms.