1 For your judgments are great, and hard to interpret; therefore undisciplined souls went astray. (WEB) 2 For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, they, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, kept close beneath their roofs, lay exiled from the eternal providence. (WEB) 3 For while they thought that they were unseen in their secret sins, they were divided from one another by a dark curtain of forgetfulness, stricken with terrible awe, and very troubled by apparitions. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 17:1–3
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