6
You had already alerted our fathers to that night well in advance. You did so in order that our fathers might rejoice and put their whole trust in the promises they had been given.
4
The others deserved to be robbed of light and to be locked up in darkness. After all, they had kept your children locked up, even though it was through them that the never-ending light of the Law was to be given to the world.
5
So you swept away in judgment a huge number of the children of those who had sought to kill off your holy ones' children (though one child, who was exposed to die, was saved!). You destroyed the rest by overwhelming them with water.
6
You had already alerted our fathers to that night well in advance. You did so in order that our fathers might rejoice and put their whole trust in the promises they had been given.
7
Your people fully expected that those who always do what is right would be delivered, while their enemies would be destroyed.
8
In the same way that you punished those who opposed your people, in just this way you called your people out of that land and gave them great honor.