Wisdom 18:16-18

Good News Translation

¹⁶ carrying out your firm command with a fearful weapon, standing with feet on the ground and head touching the sky, filling the land with death. ¹⁷ At that moment the people who were about to die had terrible nightmares and were seized by sudden fear. ¹⁸ All over the land they lay half-dead and let it be known why they were dying.