Wisdom 19:13
Good News Translation
But violent thunder gave warning of the punishment that was coming on those sinners. They suffered a well-deserved punishment for their great wickedness. No nation had ever hated strangers so bitterly.

New Revised Standard Version
And not only so—but, while punishment of some sort will come upon the former for having received strangers with hostility,

Contemporary English Version
Those sinful Egyptians had a terrible hatred for strangers, and so you punished them horribly, but not without first warning them with violent thunderstorms.

New American Bible
And not that only; but what punishment was to be theirs since they received strangers unwillingly!

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them.

Wisdom 19:11
And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats.

Wisdom 19:12
For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.

Wisdom 19:14
And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.

Wisdom 19:15
But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws.

Context
Wisdom 19
12For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness. 13For they exercised a more detestable inhospitality than any: others indeed received not strangers unknown to them, but these brought their guests into bondage that had deserved well of them. 14And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.…
Cross References
Wisdom 19:11
And at length they saw a new generation of birds, when being led by their appetite, they asked for delicate meats.

Wisdom 19:12
For to satisfy their desire, the quail came up to them from the sea: and punishments came upon the sinners, not without foregoing signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness.

Wisdom 19:14
And not only so, but in another respect also they were worse: for the others against their will received the strangers.

Wisdom 19:15
But these grievously afflicted them whom they had received with joy, and who lived under the same laws.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 19:12
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