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)
Wisdom of Solomon 17:2
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Wisdom of Solomon 18:3–5
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Psalms 107:9–11
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Psalms of Solomon 17:17–19
17 They that loved the synagogues of the pious fled from them, As sparrows that fly from their nest. (PSS) 18 They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved from harm, And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that escaped alive from them. Over… (PSS) 19 … (PSS)
Wisdom of Solomon 17:20–21
20 For the whole world was illuminated with clear light, and was occupied with unhindered works, (WEB) 21 while over them alone was spread a heavy night, an image of the darkness that should afterward receive them; but to themselves, they were heavier than darkness. (WEB)
Isaiah 42:21–23
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Wisdom of Solomon 17:16–18
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Psalms of Solomon 9:1–2
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Job 36:7–9
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