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Wisdom 19:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Wisdom 19:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 and so that your people might experience a glorious[a] journey
while their enemies would meet an unusual death.
6 For the whole creation with its varied elements was fashioned anew[b]
in compliance with your commands
so that your children might be preserved safe and sound.
7 The cloud was seen to overshadow the camp,
and dry land emerged where previously water had flowed.
In the midst of the Red Sea an unobstructed road appeared,
a grassy plain arising out of the raging waves,
Footnotes
- Wisdom 19:5 Glorious: it can also be translated as “wondrous” (see v. 22; 18:8).
- Wisdom 19:6 Fashioned anew: a principle of interpretation of sacred history: creation and its various elements are at the service of the divine plan for the salvation of Israel and the defeat of the wicked.
