19 ¹³ The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder,
for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts;
for they practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.
19 ¹⁴ Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them,
but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
19 ¹⁵ And not only so, but punishment of some sort
will come upon the former for their hostile reception of the aliens;
19 ¹⁶ but the latter,
after receiving them with festal celebrations,
afflicted with terrible sufferings those who had already shared the same rights.
19 ¹⁷ They were stricken also with loss of sight -
just as were those at the door of the righteous man -
when, surrounded by yawning darkness,
each tried to find the way through his own door.