Good News Translation
They murdered children in their initiation rituals, celebrated secret mysteries, and held wild ceremonial orgies with unnatural practices.

New Revised Standard Version
For whether they kill children in their initiations, or celebrate secret mysteries, or hold frenzied revels with strange customs,

Contemporary English Version
They kill their children as sacrifices and conduct secret ceremonies, they follow strange customs and act like wild people,

New American Bible
For while they practice either child sacrifices or occult mysteries, or frenzied carousing in exotic rites,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,

For either they sacrifice their own children, or use hidden sacrifices, or keep watches full of madness,

Wisdom 14:21
And this was the occasion of deceiving human life: for men serving either their affection, or their kings, gave the incommunicable name to stones and wood.

Wisdom 14:22
And it was not enough for them to err about the knowledge of God, but whereas they lived in a great war of ignorance, they call so many and so great evils peace.

Wisdom 14:24
So that now they neither keep life, nor marriage undefiled, but one killeth another through envy, or grieveth him by adultery:

Wisdom 14:25
And all things are mingled together, blood, murder, theft, and dissimulation, corruption and unfaithfulness, tumults and perjury, disquieting of the good,