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For the bitings of locusts, and of flies killed them, and there was found no remedy for their life: because they were worthy to be destroyed by such things.
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But not even the teeth of venomous serpents overcame thy children: for thy mercy came and healed them.
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For they were examined for the remembrance of thy words, and were quickly healed, lest falling into deep forgetfulness, they might not be able to use thy help.
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For it was neither herb, nor mollifying plaster that healed them, but thy word, O Lord, which healeth all things.
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For it is thou, O Lord, that hast power of life and death, and leadest down to the gates of death, and bringest back again:
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A man indeed killeth through malice, and when the spirit is gone forth, it shall not return, neither shall he call back the soul that is received:
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But it is impossible to escape thy hand.
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For the wicked that denied to know thee, were scourged by the strength of thy arm, being persecuted by strange waters, and hail, and rain, and consumed by fire.
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And which was wonderful, in water, which extinguisheth all things, the fire had more force: for the world fighteth for the just.
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For at one time, the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burned, but that they might see and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.
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And at another time the fire, above its own power, burned in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.