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Ecclesiasticus 16:5-12 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

5. By one that is wise a country shall be inhabited, the tribe of the ungodly shall become desolate.

6. Many such things hath my eyes seen, and greater things than these my ear hath heard.

7. In the congregation of sinners a fire shall be kindled, and in an unbelieving nation wrath shall dame out.

8. The ancient giants did not obtain pardon for their sine, who were destroyed trusting to their own strength:

9. And he spared not the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for the pride of their word.

10. He had not pity on them, destroying the whole nation that extolled themselves in their sine.

11. So did he with the six hundred thousand footmen, who were gathered together in the hardness of their heart: and if one had been stiffnecked, it is a wonder if he had escaped unpunished:

12. For mercy and wrath are with him. He is mighty to forgive, and to pour out indignation:

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