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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 respected 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.
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But for the foolish devices of their wickedness, wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason, and vile beasts, thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance;
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That they might know, that wherewithal a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.
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For thy Almighty hand, that made the world of matter without form, wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions,
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Or unknown wild beasts, full of rage, newly created, breathing out either a fiery vapour, or filthy scents of scattered smoke, or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes: