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O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments!
20
O that bitter, and yet not bitter, day when the bitter tyrant of the Greeks, quenching fire with fire in his cruel caldrons, brought with boiling rage the seven sons of the daughter of Abraham to the catapelt, and to all his torments!
21
He pierced the balls of their eyes, and cut out their tongues, and put them to death with varied tortures.
22
Wherefore divine retribution pursued and will pursue the pestilent wretch.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.