8
For with what Thou didst punish our adversaries, by the same Thou didst glorify us, whom Thou had called.
9
For the righteous children of good men offered sacrifice secretly, and with one accord made a holy law, that the saints should be like partakers of the same good and evil, the fathers now singing out the songs of praise.
10
But on the other side there sounded a discordant cry of the enemies, and a lamentable noise was carried abroad for children that were bewailed.
11
The master and the servant were punished in one manner, and as the king, so suffered the common person.
12
So they all together, by one kind of death, had innumerable dead, neither were the living sufficient to bury them; for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed.
Third Millennium Bible (TMB), New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc., Gary, SD 57237. All rights reserved.