Wisdom 16:26-28

Common English Bible

²⁶ In this way your children, whom you love, Lord, would learn that it isn’t the various kinds of crops that sustain humans, but it is your word that preserves those who trust in you. ²⁷ As proof, what wasn’t destroyed by the fire simply melted away when it was warmed by a gentle sunbeam. ²⁸ In this way we learn that we too must arise before the sun to thank you and pray to you with the dawn of light.