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And 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, that killed with their own hands souls destitute of help:
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That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might receive a worthy colony of God's children.
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Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send wasps, forerunners of thine host, to destroy them by little and 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:
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.