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O mother of the nation, vindicator of the law and champion of religion, who carried away the prize of the contest in your heart!
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O more noble than males in steadfastness, and more manly than men in endurance!
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Just as Noah's ark, carrying the world in the universal flood, stoutly endured the waves,
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so you, O guardian of the law, overwhelmed from every side by the flood of your emotions and the violent winds, the torture of your sons, endured nobly and withstood the wintry storms that assail religion.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.