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Wisdom of Solomon 12 📜 📕 ↷
God's Wisdom with Canaanites
1 O how good and sweet is thy spirit o Lord in all! parts thou doest chastise: and doest📜💬📚
2 And therefore those that err, by admonish, and speak to them, concerning the things wherein they sin: that leaving naughtiness, they may believe in thee o Lord.📜💬📚
3 For those old inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst abhor,📜💬📚
4 because they did works odious to thee by sorceries, and unjust sacrifices,📜💬📚
Cannibals and Child Killers
5 and the murderers of their own children without mercy, and eaters of men's bowels, and devourers of blood from the midst of thy sacrament,📜💬📚
6 and the parents, authors of aidless souls, thou wouldst destroy by the hands of our parents,📜💬📚
7 that they might receive a peregrination worthy of the children of God, which is a land of all most dear to thee.📜💬📚
8 But them also as men thou didst spare, and didst send forerunners of thine host, wasps, that by little and little they might destroy them.📜💬📚
9 Not because thou wast unable in battle to subdue the impious to the just, or with cruel beasts, or with a sharp word to destroy them together:📜💬📚
10 but judging by parts thou gavest place of repentance, being not ignorant, that the nation of them is wicked, and their malice natural & that their cogitation could not be changed for ever.📜💬📚
11 For it was a cursed seed from the beginning: neither fearing any, didst thou give pardon to their sins.📜💬📚
12 For who shall say to thee: what hast thou done? Or who shall stand against thy judgement? Or who in thy sight shall come revenger of the wicked men? Or who shall impute it to thee, if the nations perish, which thou hast made?📜💬📚
13 For there is no other God but thou, who hast care of all, that thou mayst shew that thou doest not give judgement unjustly.📜💬📚
14 Neither king, nor tyrant in thy sight shall inquire of them, whom thou hast destroyed.📜💬📚
15 For so much then, as thou art just, thou doest dispose all things justly: thou also esteemest it disagreeable from thy power to condemn him, who ought not to be punished.📜💬📚
16 For thy power is the beginning of justice: and for this that thou art Lord of all, thou makest thy self to spare all.📜💬📚
17 For thou shewest power, which art not thought to be absolute in power, and thou convincest the boldness of them, that know thee not.📜💬📚
18 But thou dominatour of power, judgest with tranquility, and with great reverence disposest of us: for it is in thy power when thou wilt, to be able.📜💬📚
19 And thou hast taught thy people by such works, that they must be just and gentle, and hast made thy children of good hope: because judging thou givest in sins place of repentance.📜💬📚
20 For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy servants, and that deserved to die, with so great consideration, giving time and place, whereby they might be changed from their wickedness:📜💬📚
21 with what diligence hast thou judged thy children, to whose parents thou gavest oaths and covenants of good promises?📜💬📚
Worthy Judgment of God
22 Therefore when thou givest us discipline, thou scourgest our enemies very many ways, that judging we may think upon thy goodness: and when we are judged, we may hope for thy mercy.📜💬📚
23 Wherefore to them also, which in their life have lived foolishly & unjustly, thou hast given great torments by the same things, which they did worship.📜💬📚
24 For they wandered long in the way of error, esteeming for gods those things, that in beasts are superfluous, living after the manner of senseless infants.📜💬📚
25 For this cause thou hast given judgement on them as on senseless children to be in derision.📜💬📚
26 But they that were not amended by scorns and reprehensions, have tried the worthy judgment of God.📜💬📚
27 For in what things they suffering took indignation, by those whom they thought gods, when seeing they were destroyed in them, him, whom in time past they denied that they knew, they acknowledged the true God: for the which cause the end also of their condemnation shall come upon them.📜💬📚
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