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they themselves, doomed to lie there dishonoured among the dead, eternally a laughing-stock! How they will stand aghast, when he pricks the bubble of their pride!✻ Ruins they shall be, overthrown from the foundation, land for ever parched dry; bitter torment shall be theirs, and their name shall perish irrecoverably. (Wisdom of Solomon 4, 19)
So it was with the former inhabitants of this thy holy land. Good reason thou hadst to be their enemy; (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 3)
and this land, dear to thee as no other, should be more worthily peopled by the sons of God. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 7)
Here, in the very midst of the water it would burn as never fire burned yet, to blast all the fruits of that accursed land. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 19)
when from thy heavenly throne, Lord, down leaped thy word omnipotent. Never lighted sterner warrior on a doomed land; (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 15)
Such was the cloud that over-shadowed their camp; such the dry land that appeared where water stood before; the Red Sea unlaboriously crossed, a grassy floor spread out amid the surging billows! (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 7)
Such, too, were their memories of Egypt itself; memories of the land that bred lice and could breed no beasts else, the river that could spawn frogs, yet never a fish lived there. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 10)
Land-beasts turned to water-beasts, and the firm ground was trodden by creatures born to swim. (Wisdom of Solomon 19, 18)
Out upon the false heart, the cheating lips, the hands busy with ill-doing; upon the sinner that will go two ways at once to enter the land of his desire. (Ecclesiasticus 2, 14)
Fresh privileges for Aaron were kept in store; he must share in the conquest by receiving all the land’s first-fruits; (Ecclesiasticus 45, 25)
who is more renowned for the deliverance he brought to God’s chosen people, beating down the enemies that defied him until Israel made their land its own? (Ecclesiasticus 46, 2)
These two alone, out of six hundred thousand warriors, survived the perils of the journey; these two were appointed to lead Israel into the land, all milk and honey, that was its promised home. (Ecclesiasticus 46, 10)
