When they determined to put to death the infants of the holy ones,
and when a single boy had been cast forth and then saved,
As a reproof you carried off a multitude of their children
and made them perish all at once in the mighty water.
That night was known beforehand to our ancestors,
so that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage.
The expectation of your people
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Wisdom of Solomon 18:5–25