Wisdom 10:20
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20 Therefore the righteous despoiled the wicked;
and they sang of your holy name, Lord,
and praised in unison your conquering hand,(A)
Wisdom 19:20
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20 Fire in water maintained its own strength,(A)
and water forgot its quenching nature;
Exodus 9:23-28
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23 So Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent forth peals of thunder and hail.(A) Lightning flashed toward the earth, and the Lord rained down hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 There was hail and lightning flashing here and there through the hail, and the hail was so fierce that nothing like it had been seen in Egypt since it became a nation. 25 Throughout the land of Egypt the hail struck down everything in the fields, human being and beast alike; it struck down all the vegetation of the fields and splintered every tree in the fields. 26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were, was there no hail.
27 Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them, “I have sinned this time! The Lord is the just one, and I and my people are the ones at fault. 28 Pray to the Lord! Enough of the thunder[a] and hail! I will let you go; you need stay no longer.”
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- 9:28 Thunder: lit., “divine voices,” “voices of God,” or the like.
2 Maccabees 8:36
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36 So he who had promised to provide tribute for the Romans by the capture of the people of Jerusalem proclaimed that the Jews had a champion, and that because they followed the laws laid down by him, they were unharmed.
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2 Maccabees 14:34
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34 With these words he went away. The priests stretched out their hands toward heaven, calling upon the unfailing defender of our nation in these words:
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