Wisdom of Solomon 11:1-9
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1 She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet.
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2 They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
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3 They stood against their enemies, and were avenged of their adversaries.
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4 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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5 For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.
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6 For instead of a perpetual running river troubled with foul blood,
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7 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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8 Declaring by that thirst then how thou hadst punished their adversaries.
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9 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.