Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Wisdom 11:1-7 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. She prospered their works in the hands of the holy prophet.

2. They went through wildernesses that were not inhabited, and in desert places they pitched their tents.

3. They stood against their enemies, and revenged themselves of their adversaries.

4. They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone.

5. For by what things their enemies were punished, when their drink failed them, while the children of Israel abounded therewith and rejoiced:

6. By the same things they in their need were benefited.

7. For instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust.