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For thy immortal spirit is in all things.
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Therefore thou dost correct little by little those who trespass, and dost remind and warn them of the things wherein they sin, that they may be freed from wickedness and put their trust in thee, O Lord.
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Those who dwelt of old in thy holy land
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thou didst hate for their detestable practices, their works of sorcery and unholy rites,
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their merciless slaughter of children, and their sacrificial feasting on human flesh and blood. These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,
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these parents who murder helpless lives, thou didst will to destroy by the hands of our fathers,
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that the land most precious of all to thee might receive a worthy colony of the servants of God.
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But even these thou didst spare, since they were but men, and didst send wasps as forerunners of thy army, to destroy them little by little,