Wisdom 11:8
New Revised Standard Version
showing by their thirst at that time how you punished their enemies.

Contemporary English Version
You mercifully let your people go thirsty for a while to show how severely you would punish their ungodly enemies in your anger.

New American Bible
as a rebuke to the decree for the slaying of infants, You gave them abundant water beyond their hope,

Douay-Rheims Bible
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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And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for:

Wisdom 11:6
By the same things they in their need were benefited.

Wisdom 11:7
For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.

Wisdom 11:9
Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries.

Wisdom 11:10
For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew how the wicked were judged with wrath, and tormented.

Context
Wisdom 11
7For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust. 8And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for: 9Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries.…
Cross References
Wisdom 11:6
By the same things they in their need were benefited.

Wisdom 11:7
For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.

Wisdom 11:9
Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries.

Wisdom 11:10
For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew how the wicked were judged with wrath, and tormented.



(Wisd. of Sol. Solomon W Wis)

Wisdom 11:7
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