Douay Rheims Original ↷
Wisdom of Solomon 5 📜 📕 ↷
Salavation of Just
1 THEN shall the just stand in great constancy against those that have afflicted them, and taken away their labours.📜💬📚
2 They seeing shall be troubled with horrible fear, and shall marvel at the suddenness of unexpected salvation,📜💬📚
3 saying within themselves, repenting, and sighing for anguish of spirit: These are they, whom we had sometime in derision, and in a parable of reproach.📜💬📚
4 We senseless esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour.📜💬📚
5 Behold how they are counted among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.📜💬📚
6 We therefore have erred from the way of truth, and the light of justice hath not shined to us, and the sun of understanding rose not to us.📜💬📚
7 We are wearied in the way of iniquity and perdition, and have walked hard ways, but the way of our Lord we have not known.📜💬📚
Pride and Riches Help Not
8 What hath pride profited us? Or what commodity hath the vaunting of riches brought to us?📜💬📚
9 All those things are passed away as a shadow, and as a messenger running before,📜💬📚
10 and as a ship, that passeth through the surging waters: whereof, when it is past, the trace can not be found nor the path of that ship's keel in the waves:📜💬📚
11 or as a bird, that flyeth through in the air, of which there is no token can be found of her passage, but only a sound of the wings beating the light wind: and by vehemence of going cutting the air, moving the wings she is flown through, and afterward there is no sign found of her way:📜💬📚
12 or as when an arrow is shot forth to a set mark, the divided air is forthwith closed in it-self again, so that the passage thereof is not known:📜💬📚
13 so we also being born forthwith ceased to be: and of virtue certes have been able to shew no sign: but in our naughtiness we are consumed.📜💬📚
14 Such things said they in hell, which sinned:📜💬📚
Wicked Are Hopeless, Just Live Forever
15 because the hope of the impious is as dust, which is taken away with the wind: and as a thin froth, which is dispersed by the storm: and as smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the memory of a guest of one day that passeth.📜💬📚
16 But the just shall live for ever, and their reward is with our Lord, and cogitation of them with the Highest.📜💬📚
17 Therefore shall they receive a Kingdom of honour, & a crown of beauty at the hand of our Lord: because with his right hand he will cover them, and within his holy arm he will defend them.📜💬📚
18 And his zeal will take armour, and he will arm the creature to the revenge of the enemies.📜💬📚
19 He will put on justice for a breast-plate, & will take sincere judgement for an helmet:📜💬📚
20 he will take equity for an invincible shield:📜💬📚
21 and he will sharpen fierce wrath for a spear, & the round world shall fight with him against the senseless.📜💬📚
22 The shots of lightnings shall go directly, & as it were from a bow of the clouds well bent they shall be cast forth, and shall light on a certain place.📜💬📚
23 And from rocked wrath shall thick hail-stones be cast, the water of the sea shall rage against them, and the rivers shall run together roughly.📜💬📚
24 A spirit of power shall stand against them, and as a hurlwind shall divide them: and their iniquity shall bring all the land to a desert, and naughtiness shall overthrow the seats of the mighty.📜💬📚
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