Wisdom of Solomon 19:12-22
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12 For quails came up unto them from the sea for their contentment.
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13 And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour toward strangers.
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14 For the Sodomites did not receive those, whom they knew not when they came: but these brought friends into bondage, that had well deserved of them.
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15 And not only so, but peradventure some respect shall be had of those, because they used strangers not friendly:
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16 But these very grievously afflicted them, whom they had received with feastings, and were already made partakers of the same laws with them.
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17 Therefore even with blindness were these stricken, as those were at the doors of the righteous man: when, being compassed about with horrible great darkness, every one sought the passage of his own doors.
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18 For the elements were changed in themselves by a kind of harmony, like as in a psaltery notes change the name of the tune, and yet are always sounds; which may well be perceived by the sight of the things that have been done.
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19 For earthly things were turned into watery, and the things, that before swam in the water, now went upon the ground.
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20 The fire had power in the water, forgetting his own virtue: and the water forgat his own quenching nature.
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21 On the other side, the flames wasted not the flesh of the corruptible living things, though they walked therein; neither melted they the icy kind of heavenly meat that was of nature apt to melt.
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22 For in all things, O Lord, thou didst magnify thy people, and glorify them, neither didst thou lightly regard them: but didst assist them in every time and place.