Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-11:10

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¹⁵ Holy people and blameless offspring
wisdom^[a] delivered from a nation of oppressors.^(A)
16 She entered the soul of a servant of the Lord
and withstood dread kings with wonders and signs.^(B)
17 She gave to holy people the reward of their labors;
she guided them along a marvelous way
and became a shelter to them by day
and a starry flame through the night.^(C)
18 She brought them over the Red Sea
and led them through deep waters,^(D)
19 but she drowned their enemies
and cast them up from the depth of the sea.^(E)
20 Therefore the righteous plundered the ungodly;
they sang hymns, O Lord, to your holy name
and praised with one accord your defending hand,^(F)
21 for wisdom opened the mouths of those who were mute
and made the tongues of infants speak clearly.^(G)

11 Wisdom^[b] prospered their works by the hand of a holy prophet.^(H)
2 They journeyed through an uninhabited wilderness
and pitched their tents in untrodden places.^(I)
3 They withstood their enemies and fought off their foes.^(J)
4 When they were thirsty, they called upon you,
and water was given them out of flinty rock
and from hard stone a remedy for their thirst.^(K)
5 For through the very things by which their enemies were punished,
they themselves received benefit in their need.
⁶ Instead of the fountain of an ever-flowing river,
stirred up and defiled with blood^(L)
7 in rebuke for the decree to kill the infants,
you gave them abundant water unexpectedly,^(M)
8 showing by their thirst at that time
how you punished their enemies.^(N)
9 For when they were tried, though they were being disciplined in mercy,
they learned how the ungodly were tormented when judged in wrath.^(O)
10 For you tested them as a parent^[c] does in warning,
but you examined the ungodly^[d] as a stern king does in condemnation.^(P)