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Wisdom of Solomon 11

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

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She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet.

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11:2

They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.

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They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.

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When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.

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For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.

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For instead of a fountain of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood,

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for a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for:

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declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their adversaries.

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For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just.

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For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the others, as a severe king, thou didst condemn and punish.

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Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike.

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For a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.

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For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord.

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For whom they rejected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth [of the infants], him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.

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But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance:

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that they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same shall he be punished.

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For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions,

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or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created, breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents of scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes:

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whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but also the terrible sight utterly destroy them.

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Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and scattered abroad through the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight.

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For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou wilt; and who may withstand the power of thine arm?

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For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth.

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But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.

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For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.

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And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?

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But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.

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