Wisdom 5:22
Good News Translation
Hailstones will beat down on his enemies with terrible force. The oceans and rivers will come rushing over them in a devastating flood.

New Revised Standard Version
and hailstones full of wrath will be hurled as from a catapult; the water of the sea will rage against them, and rivers will relentlessly overwhelm them;

Contemporary English Version
Fearsome hailstones will strike the Lord's enemies, while ocean waves and rivers roll over them like a flood.

New American Bible
Well-aimed bolts of lightning will go forth and from the clouds will leap to the mark as from a well-drawn bow;

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 5:20
He will take equity for an invincible shield:

Wisdom 5:21
And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole world shall fight with him against the unwise.

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.

Wisdom 5:24
A mighty wind shall stand up against them, and as a whirlwind shall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the earth to a desert, and wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.

Context
Wisdom 5
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. 23And 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.…
Cross References
Wisdom 5:20
He will take equity for an invincible shield:

Wisdom 5:21
And he will sharpen his severe wrath for a spear, and the whole world shall fight with him against the unwise.

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.

Wisdom 5:24
A mighty wind shall stand up against them, and as a whirlwind shall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the earth to a desert, and wickedness shall overthrow the thrones of the mighty.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 5:21
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