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Wisdom 19:18-22 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

18. On a harp each string keeps its own pitch, but each sound can be combined with others to make different melodies. That is how it was in those days, when the very elements entered into new combinations. Look at what happened!

19. Land animals took to the water, and swimming creatures came up on the land.

20. Fire burned even in water, which could not put it out.

21. And yet the flames could not burn the flesh of the perishable creatures walking in them, and did not melt that heavenly food that would ordinarily have melted like frost.

22. Lord, you have made your people great — glorious in all respects. You have never neglected them. You have given them help, always, everywhere.

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