| Wisdom 18: 14 - 16 |
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| 14 | For while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone, |
| 15 | thy all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior |
| 16 | carrying the sharp sword of thy authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth. |