Wisdom of Solomon 18:8-19
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8 For wherewith thou didst punish our adversaries, by the same thou didst glorify us, whom thou hadst called.
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9 For the righteous children of good men did sacrifice secretly, and with one consent made a holy law, that the saints should be like partakers of the same good and evil, the fathers now singing out the songs of praise.
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10 But on the other side there sounded an ill according cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed.
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11 The master and the servant were punished after one manner; and like as the king, so suffered the common person.
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12 So they all together had innumerable dead with one kind of death; neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.
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13 For whereas they would not believe any thing by reason of the enchantments; upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged this people to be the sons of God.
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14 For while all things were in quiet silence, and that night was in the midst of her swift course,
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15 Thine Almighty word leaped down from heaven out of thy royal throne, as a fierce man of war into the midst of a land of destruction,
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16 And brought thine unfeigned commandment as a sharp sword, and standing up filled all things with death; and it touched the heaven, but it stood upon the earth.
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17 Then suddenly visions of horrible dreams troubled them sore, and terrors came upon them unlooked for.
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18 And one thrown here, and another there, half dead, shewed the cause of his death.
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19 For the dreams that troubled them did foreshew this, lest they should perish, and not know why they were afflicted.