Wisdom of Solomon 17:17-19

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¹⁷ for whether they were farmers or shepherds
or workers who toiled in the wilderness,
they were seized and endured the inescapable fate,
for with one chain of darkness they all were bound.^(A)
18 Whether there came a whistling wind,
or a melodious sound of birds in wide-spreading branches,
or the rhythm of violently rushing water,^(B)
19 or the harsh crash of rocks hurled down,
or the unseen running of leaping animals,
or the sound of the most savage roaring beasts,
or an echo thrown back from a hollow of the mountains,
it paralyzed them with terror.^(C)