Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Bolts of lightning will strike right on target, as if the Lord had made a bow out of the clouds and was shooting arrows. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole world shall fight with him against the unwise. Wisdom 5:19He will put on justice as a breastplate, and will take true judgment instead of a helmet: Wisdom 5:20 He will take equity for an invincible shield: Wisdom 5:22 Then shafts of lightning shall go directly from the clouds, as from a bow well bent, they shall be shot out, and shall fly to the mark. Wisdom 5:23 And thick hail shall be cast upon them from the stone casting wrath: the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the rivers shall run together in a terrible manner. Context Wisdom 5…20He will take equity for an invincible shield: 21And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole world shall fight with him against the unwise. 22Then shafts of lightning shall go directly from the clouds, as from a bow well bent, they shall be shot out, and shall fly to the mark.… Cross References Wisdom 5:19 He will put on justice as a breastplate, and will take true judgment instead of a helmet: Wisdom 5:20 He will take equity for an invincible shield: Wisdom 5:22 Then shafts of lightning shall go directly from the clouds, as from a bow well bent, they shall be shot out, and shall fly to the mark. Wisdom 5:23 And thick hail shall be cast upon them from the stone casting wrath: the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the rivers shall run together in a terrible manner. |