Wis 12:1 

For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things. 

Wis 12:2 

Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that 

offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein 

they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may 

believe on thee, O Lord. 

Wis 12:3 

For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers 

both those old inhabitants of thy holy land, 

Wis 12:4 

Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of witchcrafts, 

and wicked sacrifices; 

Wis 12:5 

And also those merciless murderers of children, and devourers 

of man's flesh, and the feasts of blood, 

Wis 12:6 

With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crew, 

and the parents, that killed with their own hands souls 

destitute of help: 

Wis 12:7 

That the land, which thou esteemedst above all other, might 

receive a worthy colony of God's children. 

Wis 12:8 

Nevertheless even those thou sparedst as men, and didst send 

wasps, forerunners of thine host, to destroy them by little and 

little. 

Wis 12:9 

Not that thou wast unable to bring the ungodly under the hand 

of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at once with 

cruel beasts, or with one rough word: 

Wis 12:10 

But executing thy judgments upon them by little and little, 

thou gavest them place of repentance, not being ignorant that 

they were a naughty generation, and that their malice was bred 

in them, and that their cogitation would never be changed. 

Wis 12:11 

For it was a cursed seed from the beginning; neither didst 

thou for fear of any man give them pardon for those things 

wherein they sinned. 

Wis 12:12 

For who shall say, What hast thou done? or who shall 

withstand thy judgment? or who shall accuse thee for the nations 

that perish, whom thou made? or who shall come to stand against 

thee, to be revenged for the unrighteous men? 

Wis 12:13 

For neither is there any God but thou that careth for all, to 

whom thou mightest shew that thy judgment is not unright. 

Wis 12:14 

Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against 

thee for any whom thou hast punished. 

Wis 12:15 

Forsomuch then as thou art righteous thyself, thou orderest 

all things righteously: thinking it not agreeable with thy power 

to condemn him that hath not deserved to be punished. 

Wis 12:16 

For thy power is the beginning of righteousness, and because 

thou art the Lord of all, it maketh thee to be gracious unto 

all. 

Wis 12:17 

For when men will not believe that thou art of a full power, 

thou shewest thy strength, and among them that know it thou 

makest their boldness manifest. 

Wis 12:18 

But thou, mastering thy power, judgest with equity, and 

orderest us with great favour: for thou mayest use power when 

thou wilt. 

Wis 12:19 

But by such works hast thou taught thy people that the just 

man should be merciful, and hast made thy children to be of a 

good hope that thou givest repentance for sins. 

Wis 12:20 

For if thou didst punish the enemies of thy children, and the 

condemned to death, with such deliberation, giving them time and 

place, whereby they might be delivered from their malice: 

Wis 12:21 

With how great circumspection didst thou judge thine own 

sons, unto whose fathers thou hast sworn, and made covenants of 

good promises? 

Wis 12:22 

Therefore, whereas thou dost chasten us, thou scourgest our 

enemies a thousand times more, to the intent that, when we 

judge, we should carefully think of thy goodness, and when we 

ourselves are judged, we should look for mercy. 

Wis 12:23 

Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and 

unrighteously, thou hast tormented them with their own 

abominations. 

Wis 12:24 

For they went astray very far in the ways of error, and held 

them for gods, which even among the beasts of their enemies were 

despised, being deceived, as children of no understanding. 

Wis 12:25 

Therefore unto them, as to children without the use of 

reason, thou didst send a judgment to mock them. 

Wis 12:26 

But they that would not be reformed by that correction, 

wherein he dallied with them, shall feel a judgment worthy of 

God. 

Wis 12:27 

For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were 

punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; [now] 

being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him 

to be the true God, whom before they denied to know: and 

therefore came extreme damnation upon them.