Wisdom 11:2–14

They went through wildernesses that were not inhabited, and in desert places they pitched their tents. 3They stood against their enemies, and revenged themselves of their adversaries. 4They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone. 5For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith, and rejoiced: 6By the same things they in their need were benefited. 7For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust. 8And whilst they were diminished for a manifest reproof of their murdering the infants, thou gavest to thine abundant water unlooked for: 9Shewing by the thirst that was then, how thou didst exalt thine, and didst kill their adversaries. 10For when they were tried, and chastised with mercy, they knew how the wicked were judged with wrath, and tormented. 11For thou didst admonish and try them as a father: but the others, as a severe king, thou didst examine and condemn. 12For whether absent or present, they were tormented alike. 13For a double affliction came upon them, and a groaning for the remembrance of things past. 14For when they heard that by their punishments the others were benefited, they remembered the Lord, wondering at the end of what was come to pass.