Wisdom 19:4
New Revised Standard Version
For the whole creation in its nature was fashioned anew, complying with your commands, so that your children might be kept unharmed.

Contemporary English Version
They were urged on by the destruction they deserved, and it made them forget what had already happened, so that they would be fully punished

New American Bible
For all creation, in its several kinds, was being made over anew, serving your commands, that your children might be preserved unharmed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:

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For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:

Wisdom 19:2
For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them.

Wisdom 19:3
For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:

Wisdom 19:5
And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.

Wisdom 19:6
For every creature, according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.

Context
Wisdom 19
3For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone: 4For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments: 5And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.…
Cross References
Wisdom 19:2
For when they had given them leave to depart and had sent them away with great care, they repented and pursued after them.

Wisdom 19:3
For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:

Wisdom 19:5
And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.

Wisdom 19:6
For every creature, according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 19:3
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