Wisdom 12:1–9
1For your incorruptible spirit is in all things.↗
2Therefore you convict little by little those who fall from the right way, and, putting them in remembrance by the things wherein they sin, you admonish them, that escaping from their wickedness they may believe in you, O Lord.↗
3For truly the old inhabitants of your holy land,↗
4hating them because they practiced detestable works of enchantments and unholy rites—↗
5merciless slaughters of children and sacrificial banquets of men’s flesh and of blood—↗
6allies in an impious fellowship, and murderers of their own helpless babes, it was your counsel to destroy by the hands of our fathers;↗
7that the land which in your sight is most precious of all might receive a worthy colony of God’s servants.↗
8Nevertheless you even spared these as men, and you sent hornets as forerunners of your army, to cause them to perish little by little.↗
9Not that you were unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or by terrible beasts or by a stern word to make away with them at once,↗
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