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Wisdom of Solomon 12

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¹For your incorruptible Spirit is in all things.

¹For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things.

²Therefore chasten you them by little and little that offend, and warn them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on you, O Lord.

²Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord.

³For it was your will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of your holy land,

³For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those old inhabitants of thy holy land,

⁴Whom you hated for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices;

⁴Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, and wicked sacrifices;

⁵And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man's flesh, and the feasts of blood,

⁵And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man’s flesh, and the feasts of blood,

⁶With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of help:

⁷That the land, which you esteemed above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God's children.

⁷That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God’s children.

⁸Nevertheless even those you spared as men, and did send wasps, forerunners of your host, to destroy them by little and little.

⁸Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thine host, to destroy them by little and little.

⁹Not that you were unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word:

⁹Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with cruel beasts, or with one rough word:

¹⁰But executing your judgments upon them by little and little, you gave them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.

¹⁰But executing thy judgments upon them by little and little, thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.

¹¹For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither did you for fear of any man give them pardon for those things wherein they sinned.

¹¹For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither didst thou for fear of any man give them pardon for those things wherein they sinned.

¹²For who shall say, What have you done? or who shall withstand your judgment? or who shall accuse you for the nations that perish, whom you made? or who shall come to stand against you, to be revenged for the unrighteous men?

¹²For who shall say, What hast thou done? or who shall withstand thy judgment? or who shall accuse thee for the nations that perish, whom thou made? or who shall come to stand against thee, to be revenged for the unrighteous men?

¹³For neither is there any God but you that careth for all, to whom you might show that your judgment is not unright.

¹³For neither is there any God but thou that careth for all, to whom thou mightest shew that thy judgment is not unright.

¹⁴Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against you for any whom you have punished.

¹⁴Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against thee for any whom thou hast punished.

¹⁵Forsomuch then as you are righteous yourself, you order all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with your power to condemn him that has not deserved to be punished.

¹⁵Forsomuch then as thou art righteous thyself, thou orderest all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with thy power to condemn him that hath not deserved to be punished.

¹⁶For your power is the beginning of righteousness, and because you are the Lord of all, it makes you to be gracious to all.

¹⁶For thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because thou art the Lord of all, it maketh thee to be gracious unto all.

¹⁷For when men will not believe that you are of a full power, you show your strength, and among them that know it you make their boldness manifest.

¹⁷For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power, thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou makest their boldness manifest.

¹⁸But you, mastering your power, judge with equity, and order us with great favor: for you may use power when you will.

¹⁸But thou, mastering thy power, judgest with equity, and orderest us with great favour: for thou mayest use power when thou wilt.

¹⁹But by such works have you taught your people that the just man should be merciful, and have made your children to be of a good hope that you give repentance for sins.

¹⁹But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope that thou givest repentance for sins.

²⁰For if you did punish the enemies of your children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice:

²⁰For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice:

²¹With how great circumspection did you judge your own sons, to whose fathers you have sworn, and made covenants of good promises?

²¹With how great circumspection didst thou judge thine own sons, unto whose fathers thou hast sworn, and made covenants of good promises?

²²Therefore, whereas you do chasten us, you scourge our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we judge, we should carefully think of your goodness, and when we ourselves are judged, we should look for mercy.

²²Therefore, whereas thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we judge, we should carefully think of thy goodness, and when we ourselves are judged, we should look for mercy.

²³Therefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, you have tormented them with their own abominations.

²³Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own abominations.

²⁴For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and held them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were despised, being deceived, as children of no understanding.

²⁵Therefore to them, as to children without the use of reason, you did send a judgment to mock them.

²⁵Therefore unto them, as to children without the use of reason, thou didst send a judgment to mock them.

²⁶But they that would not be reformed by that correction, wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of God.

²⁷For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; [now] being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme damnation upon them.

²⁷For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; now being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and therefore came extreme damnation upon them.