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Through such works you have taught your people that the righteous must be kind, and you have filled your children with good hope, because you give repentance for sins.
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For you show your strength when people doubt the completeness of your power, and you rebuke any insolence among those who know it.
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Although you are sovereign in strength, you judge with mildness, and with great forbearance you govern us; for you have power to act whenever you choose.
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Through such works you have taught your people that the righteous must be kind, and you have filled your children with good hope, because you give repentance for sins.
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For if you punished with such great care and indulgence the enemies of your servants and those deserving of death, granting them time and opportunity to give up their wickedness,
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with what strictness you have judged your children, to whose ancestors you gave oaths and covenants full of good promises!
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