Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation in which parents murdered their own defenseless children. It was your will for our ancestors to destroy these people, New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents, Wisdom 12:4Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and wicked sacrifices, Wisdom 12:5 And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration, Wisdom 12:7 That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God. Wisdom 12:8 Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little. Context Wisdom 12…5And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration, 6And those parents sacrificing with their own hands helpless souls, it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our parents, 7That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God.… Cross References Wisdom 12:4 Because they did works hateful to thee by their sorceries, and wicked sacrifices, Wisdom 12:5 And those merciless murderers of their own children, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy consecration, Wisdom 12:7 That the land which of all is most dear to thee, might receive a worthy colony of the children of God. Wisdom 12:8 Yet even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little. |