Wisdom of Solomon 12
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1FOr thine incorruptible spirit is in all things. 2Therefore thou chastnest them measurably that go wrong, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance of the things wherein they haue offended, that leauing wickednes they may beleue in thee, ô Lord. 3As for those olde inhabitants of the holy land, thou didest hate them. 4For they committed abominable workes, as sorceries and wicked sacrifices, 6And the fathers were the chief murtherers of the soules, destitute of all helpe, whome thou woldest destroy by the hands of our fathers, 7That the land which thou louest aboue all other, might be a mete dwelling for the children of God. 8Neuertheles, thou sparedst them also, as men, and sendedst the forerunners of thine hoste, euen hornettes to destroie them by litle and litle, 9Not that thou wast vnable to subdue the vngodlie vnto the righteous in battel, or with cruel beastes, or with one rough worde to destroie them together. 10But in punishing them by litle and litle, thou gauest them space to repent, knowing wel, that it was an vnrighteous nacion & wicked of nature, & that their thoght colde neuer be altered. 11For it was a cursed sede from the beginning: yet hast thou not spared them when they sinned, because thou feared any man. 12For who dare say, What hast thou done? or who dare stand against thy iudgement? or who dare accuse thee for the nacions that perish, whome thou hast made? or who dare stand against thee to reuenge the wicked men? 13For there is none other God but thou, that carest for all things, that thou maist declare how that thy iudgement is not vnright. 14There dare nether King nor tyrant in thy sight require accountes of them whome thou hast punished. 15For so muche then as thou art righteous thy self, thou ordrest all things righteously, thinking it not agreable to thy power to condemne him, that hathe not deserued to be punished. 16For thy power is the beginning of righteousnes, and because thou art Lord of all things, it causeth thee to spare all things. 17When men thinke thee not to be of a perfite power, thou declarest thy power, and reprouest the boldenes of the wise. 18But thou ruling the power, iudgest with equitie, & gouernest vs with great fauour: for thou maist shew thy power when thou wilt. 19By suche workes now hast thou taught thy people, that a man shulde be iust and louing, and hast made thy children to be of a good hope: for thou giuest repentance to sinners. 20For if thou hast punished the enemies of thy children that had deserued death with so great consideration, and requesting vnto them, giuing them time & place that they might change from their wickednes, 21With how great circumspection wilt thou punish thine owne children, vnto whose fathers thou hast sworne and made couenants of good promises? 22So when thou doest chasten vs, thou punishest our enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that when we iudge, we shulde diligently consider thy goodnes, and when we are iudged, we shulde hope for mercie. 23Wherefore thou hast tormented the wicked that haue liued a dissolute life by their owne imaginations. 24For they went astray verie farre in the waies of errour, and estemed the beasts, which their enemies dispised, for gods, being abused after the maner of children, that haue none vnderstanding. 25Therefore hast thou sent this punishment that they shulde be in derision as children without reason. 26But they that wil not be reformed by those scorneful rebukes, shal fele the worthie punishment of God. 27For in those things when they suffred, they disdeined: but in these whome they counted godlie when they sawe them selues punished by them, they all acknowledged the true God whome afore they had denied to knowe: therefore came extreme damnation vpon them.