Wisdom 11:1–9
1Wisdom prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet.↗
2They traveled through a desert without inhabitant, and they pitched their tents in trackless regions.↗
3They withstood enemies and repelled foes.↗
4They thirsted, and they called upon you, and water was given to them out of the flinty rock, and healing of their thirst out of the hard stone.↗
5For by what things their foes were punished, by these they in their need were benefited.↗
6When enemies were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain,↗
7to rebuke the decree for the slaying of babies, you gave them abundant water beyond all hope,↗
8having shown by the thirst which they had suffered how you punished the adversaries.↗
9For when they were tried, although chastened in mercy, they learned how the ungodly were tormented, being judged with wrath.↗
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