16
carrying the sharp sword of thy authentic command, and stood and filled all things with death, and touched heaven while standing on the earth.
17
Then at once apparitions in dreadful dreams greatly troubled them, and unexpected fears assailed them;
18
and one here and another there, hurled down half dead, made known why they were dying;
19
for the dreams which disturbed them forewarned them of this, so that they might not perish without knowing why they suffered.
20
The experience of death touched also the righteous, and a plague came upon the multitude in the desert, but the wrath did not long continue.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.