She prospered their works in the hand of a holy prophet.

2 They journeyed through a desert without inhabitant,

3 They withstood enemies, and repelled foes.

4 They thirsted, and they called upon thee,

5 For by what things their foes were punished,

6 When the enemy were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain,

7 To rebuke the decree for the slaying of babes,

8 Having shown them by the thirst which they had suffered how thou didst punish the adversaries.

9 For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastened,

10 For these, as a father, admonishing them, thou didst prove;

11 Yea and whether they were far off from the righteous or near them, they were alike distressed;

12 For a double grief took hold on them,

13 For when they heard that through their own punishments the others had been benefited,

14 For him who long before was cast forth and exposed they left off mocking:

15 But in requital of the senseless imaginings of their unrighteousness,

16 That they might learn, that by what things a man sinneth, by these he is punished.

17 For thine all-powerful hand,

18 Or new-created wild beasts, full of rage, of unknown kind,

19 Which had power not only to consume them by their violence,

20 Yea and without these might they have fallen by a single breath,

21 For to be greatly strong is thine at all times;

22 Because the whole world before thee is as a grain in a balance,

23 But thou hast mercy on all men, because thou hast power to do all things,

24 For thou lovest all things that are,

25 And how would anything have endured, except thou hadst willed it?

26 But thou sparest all things, because they are thine,