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Wisdom prospered their works by the hand of a holy prophet.
2
They journeyed through an uninhabited wilderness, and pitched their tents in untrodden places.
3
They withstood their enemies and fought off their foes.
4
When they were thirsty, they called upon you, and water was given them out of flinty rock, and from hard stone a remedy for their thirst.
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For through the very things by which their enemies were punished, they themselves received benefit in their need.