Wisdom 11:23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
23 [a]But you have mercy on all, because you can do all things;
and you overlook sins for the sake of repentance.(A)
Footnotes
- 11:23 The combination of divine mercy and power is an unusual paradox, but cf. 12:15–18; Ps 62:12–13; Sir 2:18. The main emphasis is on a creating that is motivated by love; the divine “imperishable spirit” (either Wisdom as in 1:4, 7, or perhaps the breath of life as in Gn 2:7) is in everything (12:1).
Psalm 55:20
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
20 God, who sits enthroned forever,(A)
will hear me and afflict them.
Selah
For they will not mend their ways;
they have no fear of God.
Ben Sira 16:9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
9 He did not spare the doomed people,[a]
dispossessed because of their sin;
Footnotes
- 16:9 Doomed people: the Canaanite tribes whose aberrant religious practices, at least in Israelite opinion, caused their downfall: Ex 23:23–24, 27–33; 33:2; 34:11–16; Dt 7:1–2; Wis 12:3–7.
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