Wisdom 18:6-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 That night was known beforehand to our ancestors,
so that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage.(A)
7 The expectation of your people
was the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of their foes.(B)
8 For by the same means with which you punished our adversaries,
you glorified us whom you had summoned.(C)
9 For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice
and carried out with one mind the divine institution,[a]
So that your holy ones should share alike the same blessings and dangers,
once they had sung the ancestral hymns of praise.(D)
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