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Wisdom 19:17-19
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 19:17-19
New Catholic Bible
17 Therefore, they were also struck with blindness,[a]
like the sinners at the door of the righteous man,
when, surrounded by yawning darkness,
all of them had to grope their way to their own doorways.
Nature Transformed during the Exodus
18 A new arrangement of the elements occurred,
just as the strings of a harp can produce varied rhythms
while each note remains the same.
This can be clearly perceived
from an observation of what took place.
19 Land animals[b] became water creatures,
while creatures that swim migrated to dry land.
Footnotes
- Wisdom 19:17 Blindness: allusion to the plague of darkness (Ex 10:21-23).
- Wisdom 19:19 Land animals: i.e., the Israelites together with their cattle who passed across the Red Sea. Creatures that swim: i.e., frogs (Ex 7:26ff).
