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As for the ungodly, wrath came upon them without mercy unto the end: for he knew before what they would do;
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How that having given them leave to depart, and sent them hastily away, they would repent and pursue them.
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For whilst they were yet mourning and making lamentation at the graves of the dead, they added another foolish device, and pursued them as fugitives, whom they had intreated to be gone.
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For the destiny, whereof they were worthy, drew them unto this end, and made them forget the things that had already happened, that they might fulfil the punishment which was wanting to their torments:
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And that thy people might pass a wonderful way: but they might find a strange death.
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For the whole creature in his proper kind was fashioned again anew, serving the peculiar commandments that were given unto them, that thy children might be kept without hurt: