Wisdom 11:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
III. Special Providence of God During the Exodus[a]
Introduction
2 They journeyed through the uninhabited desert,
and in lonely places they pitched their tents;(A)
3 they withstood enemies and warded off their foes.(B)
4 When they thirsted, they called upon you,
and water was given them from the sheer rock,
a quenching of their thirst from the hard stone.
Footnotes
- 11:2–19:22 Few verses in chaps. 11–19 can be fully understood without consulting the passages in the Pentateuch which are indicated in the cross-references. The theme of this part of the book is expressed in v. 5 and is illustrated in the following chapters by five examples drawn from Exodus events.
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