Wisdom 17:19-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 or the rude crash of overthrown rocks,
Or the unseen gallop of bounding animals,
or the roaring cry of the fiercest beasts,
Or an echo resounding from the hollow of the hills—
these sounds, inspiring terror, paralyzed them.
20 For the whole world shone with brilliant light(A)
and continued its works without interruption;
21 But over them alone was spread oppressive night,
an image of the darkness[a] that was about to come upon them.
Yet they were more a burden to themselves than was the darkness.
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