Wisdom 11:1-6

1 Wisdom prospered their works by the hand of a holy prophet.

2 They journeyed through an uninhabited wilderness, and pitched their tents in untrodden places.

3 They withstood their enemies and fought off their foes.

4 When they thirsted they called upon thee, and water was given them out of flinty rock, and slaking of thirst from hard stone.

5 For through the very things by which their enemies were punished, they themselves received benefit in their need.

6 Instead of the fountain of an ever-flowing river, stirred up and defiled with blood