Wisdom 11:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 When the enemy were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river's ever-flowing fountain, More versionsCommon English Bible So instead of a source of fresh water, your enemies found their own flowing river to be polluted with blood and gore. It was a judgment on those who killed their own children. Catholic Public Domain Version yet though water, when they were in need, it turned out well for them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version By the same things they in their need were benefited. Good News Translation (US Version) Because those enemies decreed that the babies of your people should be killed, you stirred up the sources of their everflowing river and made it foul with blood. In the desert you let your people go thirsty, to give them a taste of how you had punished their enemies. And then, when they least expected it, you gave them plenty of water. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers When enemies were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain, Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition You turned the ever-flowing Nile River into filthy blood |