Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Because those enemies decreed that the babies of your people should be killed, you stirred up the sources of their everflowing river and made it foul with blood. In the desert you let your people go thirsty, to give them a taste of how you had punished their enemies. And then, when they least expected it, you gave them plenty of water. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge By the same things they in their need were benefited. Wisdom 11:4They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone. Wisdom 11:5 For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced: Wisdom 11:7 For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust. Wisdom 11:8 And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for: Context Wisdom 11…5For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced: 6By the same things they in their need were benefited. 7For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.… Cross References Wisdom 11:4 They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone. Wisdom 11:5 For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced: Wisdom 11:7 For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust. Wisdom 11:8 And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for: |
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