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Tidings from far away, that racked the Egyptians no less than their own former sufferings; (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 12)
So lost to piety were these Egyptians, such foolish reasonings led them astray, that they worshipped brute✻ reptiles, and despicable vermin. And swarms of brute beasts thou didst send to execute thy vengeance, (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 16)
No moment passes but thou, if thou wilt, canst shew thyself supreme; that arm has power there is no withstanding; (Wisdom of Solomon 11, 22)
And so it was that thou didst plague the Egyptians,✻ that were knaves and fools both; their own false gods should be the undoing of them. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 23)
But there are men more wretched yet, men who repose all their confidence in a world of shadows. They give the name of god to what is made by human art, gold and silver that human workmanship has turned into the likeness of living things, blocks of senseless stone that human hands have carved, long ago. (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
Existence, for him, only a toy to be played with; our life here, only a market-place, where a man must needs get his living by fair means or foul! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 12)
Fittingly, then, were the Egyptians plagued by such beasts as these, that swarmed to their undoing.✻ (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 1)
For indeed, he who turned to look did not win safety from the brazen serpent which met his eyes, but from thee, who alone canst save. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 7)
Lord of life as of death, thou canst bring us down to the grave and back from the grave; (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 13)
Brightest of all, that light shone on thy chosen people. These neighbours of theirs, heard but not seen, the Egyptians must congratulate on their escape from the common doom, (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 1)
A fitting punishment it was for the Egyptians, this loss of light; fitting that they should be imprisoned in darkness, who had kept thy own sons in prison; thy own sons, through whom that law, which is light unfailing, was to be given to the world. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 4)
But music was none in the enemy’s cry that answered them; here all was dirge for children untimely mourned. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 10)
