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2 They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay
no way.
4 When they were thirsty, they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their
thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.
7 For a manifest reproof of that commandment, whereby the infants were slain, thou gavest unto them abundance
of water by a means which they hoped not for:
9 For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath
and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just.
10 For these thou didst admonish and try, as a father: but the other, as a severe king, thou didst condemn
and punish.
13 For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited, they had some feeling of the
Lord.
14 For whom they respected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants,
him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.
15 But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void
of reason, and vile beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance;
17 For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without form, wanted not means to send among them
a multitude of bears or fierce lions,
18 Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created, breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents
of scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes:
19 Whereof not only the harm might dispatch them at once, but also the terrible sight utterly destroy them.
20 Yea, and without these might they have fallen down with one blast, being persecuted of vengeance, and
scattered abroad through the breath of thy power: but thou hast ordered all things in measure and number
and weight.
21 For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou wilt; and who may withstand the power of
thine arm?
22 For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew
that falleth down upon the earth.
23 But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they
should amend.
24 For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest
thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.