Wisdom 18:14-16 NRSVue

¹⁴For while gentle silence enveloped all things and night in its swift course was now half-gone, ¹⁵your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed, a stern warrior ¹⁶carrying the sharp sword of your authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death and touched heaven while standing on the earth.

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