Wisdom 12:20-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
20 For these were enemies of your servants, doomed to death;
yet, while you punished them with such solicitude and indulgence,
granting time and opportunity to abandon wickedness,
21 With what exactitude you judged your children,
to whose ancestors you gave the sworn covenants of goodly promises!(A)
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