For thine incorruptible spirit is in all things.

2 Wherefore thou convictest by little and little them that fall from the right way,

3 For verily the old inhabitants of thy holy land,

4 Hating them because they practiced detestable works of enchantments and unholy rites

5 (Merciless slaughters of children,

6 Confederates in an impious fellowship,

7 That the land which in thy sight is most precious of all lands

8 Nevertheless even these thou didst spare as being men,

9 Not that thou wast unable to subdue the ungodly under the hand of the righteous in battle,

10 But judging them by little and little thou gavest them a place of repentance,

11 For they were a seed accursed from the beginning:

12 For who shall say, What hast thou done?

13 For neither is there any God beside thee that careth for all,

14 Neither shall king or prince be able to look thee in the face to plead for those whom thou hast punished.

15 But being righteous thou rulest all things righteously,

16 For thy strength is the beginning of righteousness,

17 For when men believe not that thou art perfect in power, thou showest thy strength,

18 But thou, being sovereign over thy strength, judgest in gentleness,

19 But thou didst teach thy people by such works as these,

20 For if on them that were enemies of thy servants and due to death

21 With how great carefulness didst thou judge thy sons,

22 While therefore thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our enemies ten thousand times more,

23 Wherefore also the unrighteous that lived in folly of life

24 For verily they went astray very far in the ways of error,

25 Therefore, as unto unreasoning children, thou didst send thy judgment to mock them.

26 But they that would not be admonished by a mocking correction as of children

27 For through the sufferings whereat they were indignant,