Wisdom 11:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 For by the things through which their foes were punished
they in their need were benefited.(A)
First Example: Water Punishes the Egyptians and Benefits the Israelites
6 Instead of a river’s[a] perennial source,
troubled with impure blood(B)
7 as a rebuke to the decree for the slaying of infants,
You gave them abundant water beyond their hope,
Footnotes
- 11:6–8 River: the Nile; the contrast is between the first plague of Egypt (Ex 7:17–24) and the water drawn from the rock in Horeb (Ex 17:5–7; Nm 20:8–11).
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