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whom Thou hated for doing most odious works of witchcraft and wicked sacrifices;
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but also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers of man's flesh and the feasts of blood,
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with their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, and the parents who killed with their own hands souls destitute of help;
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that the land, which Thou esteemed above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God's children.
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Nevertheless even those Thou spared as men and didst send wasps, forerunners of Thine host, to destroy them little by little.
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Not 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,
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but, executing Thy judgments upon them little by little, Thou gavest them room for repentance, not being ignorant that they were an evil generation, and that their malice was bred in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed.
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For it was an accursed seed from the beginning; neither didst Thou for fear of any man give them pardon for those things wherein they sinned.
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For 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 avenged for the unrighteous men?
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For neither is there any God but Thou, that careth for all, to whom Thou mightest show that Thy judgment is not unjust;
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neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against Thee for any whom Thou hast punished.