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She prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet.
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They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited, and pitched tents in places where there lay no way.
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They stood against their enemies and were avenged on their adversaries.
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When they were thirsty, they called upon Thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.
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For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.
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For instead of a fountain of a perpetual running river, troubled with foul blood
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for a manifest reproof of that commandment whereby the infants were slain, Thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for,
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declaring by that thirst then how Thou hadst punished their adversaries.
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For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just.