1 For your incorruptible spirit is in all things.
2 Therefore you convict little by little those who fall from the right way,
3 For truly the old inhabitants of your holy land,
4 hating them because they practised detestable works of enchantments and unholy rites—
5 merciless slaughters of children
6 allies in an impious fellowship,
7 that the land which in your sight is most precious of all
8 Nevertheless you even spared these as men,
9 Not that you were unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle,
10 but judging them little by little you gave them a chance to repent,
11 For they were a cursed seed from the beginning.
12 For who will say, “What have you done?”
13 For there isn’t any God beside you that cares for all,
14 No king or prince will be able to confront you
15 But being righteous, you rule all things righteously,
16 For your strength is the source of righteousness,
17 For when men don’t believe that you are perfect in power, you show your strength,
18 But you, being sovereign in strength, judge in gentleness,
19 But you taught your people by such works as these,
20 For if on those who were enemies of your servants and deserving of death,ᵃᵇ
21 with how great care you judged your sons,
22 Therefore while you chasten us, you scourge our enemies ten thousand times more,
23 Therefore also the unrighteous that lived in a life of folly,
24 For truly they went astray very far in the ways of error,
25 Therefore, as to unreasoning children, you sent your judgement to mock them.
26 But those who would not be admonished by mild correction
27 For through the sufferings they were indignant of,