Chapter 11

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,

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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,

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⁵ For by what things their enemies were punished,

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⁶ For instead of a fountain of a perpetual running river

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⁷ For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain,

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⁸ Declaring by that thirst then how

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⁹ For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastised,

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¹⁰ For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father:

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¹¹ Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike.

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¹² For a double grief came upon them,

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¹³ For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited,

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¹⁴ For whom they rejected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth [of the infants],

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¹⁵ But for the foolish devices of their wickedness,

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¹⁶ That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same shall he be punished.

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¹⁷ For thy Almighty hand,

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¹⁸ Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created,

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¹⁹ Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once,

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²⁰ Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one blast,

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²¹ For thou canst show thy great strength at all times when thou wilt;

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²² For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance,

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²³ But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things,

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²⁴ For thou lovest all the things that are,

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²⁵ And how could anything have endured, if it had not been thy will?

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²⁶ But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.

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