Wisdom 18: 1 - 4
IECOT edition (2019, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart)
editor : Luca Mazzinghi translator: Michael Tait
But for your faithful
there was a very great light!
The others, however, hearing
their voice and not seeing
their form, proclaimed them
blessed for not having suffered
also. They gave thanks
because -- although having
undergone injustice at their
hands -- they did not do
(them) evil and prayed that
they might be taken away.
By contrast, a flaming pillar
(Deuteronomy 1:33) guide
for an unknown journey,
a harmless sun for a glorious
emigration, you prepared.
Truly, those deserved to be
deprived of light and held
prisoners of darkness,
they who had shut up and
imprisoned your sons
through whom the incorruptible
light of the law would be
given to the world.
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