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When they were thirsty, they called upon Thee, and water was given them out of the flinty rock, and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone.
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For by what things their enemies were punished, by the same they in their need were benefited.
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For instead of a fountain of a perpetual running river, troubled with foul blood
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for a manifest reproof of that commandment whereby the infants were slain, Thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for,
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declaring by that thirst then how Thou hadst punished their adversaries.
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For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastised, they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented, thirsting in another manner than the just.
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For these Thou didst admonish and try as a father, but the other as a severe king Thou didst condemn and punish.
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Whether they were absent or present, they were vexed alike;
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for a double grief came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past.
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For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited, they had some feeling of the Lord.
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For whom they rejected with scorn, when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.