Wisdom 16:20
Good News Translation
But this disaster did not strike your people. Instead, you gave them the food of angels. From heaven you sent down bread that was ready to eat, and they did not have to prepare it. The food you gave delighted everyone, no matter what his taste.

New Revised Standard Version
Instead of these things you gave your people food of angels, and without their toil you supplied them from heaven with bread ready to eat, providing every pleasure and suited to every taste.

Contemporary English Version
You blessed your people with manna, that food of angels, the bread you sent down from heaven. It satisfied their hunger and tasted delicious.

New American Bible
Instead of this, you nourished your people with food of angels and furnished them bread from heaven, ready to hand, untoiled-for, endowed with all delights and conforming to every taste.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.

Wisdom 16:18
For at one time the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burnt, but that they might see, and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.

Wisdom 16:19
And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.

Wisdom 16:21
For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man's will, it was turned to what every man liked.

Wisdom 16:22
But snow and ice endured the force of fire, and melted not: that they might know that the fire, burning in the hail, and flashing in the rain, destroyed the fruits of the enemies.

Context
Wisdom 16
19And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land. 20Instead of which things, thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven, prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste. 21For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man's will, it was turned to what every man liked.…
Cross References
Wisdom 16:18
For at one time the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burnt, but that they might see, and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.

Wisdom 16:19
And at another time the fire, above its own power, burnt in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.

Wisdom 16:21
For thy sustenance shewed thy sweetness to thy children, and serving every man's will, it was turned to what every man liked.

Wisdom 16:22
But snow and ice endured the force of fire, and melted not: that they might know that the fire, burning in the hail, and flashing in the rain, destroyed the fruits of the enemies.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 16:19
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