20. For these were enemies of your servants, doomed to death;yet, while you punished them with such solicitude and indulgence,granting time and opportunity to abandon wickedness,
21. With what exactitude you judged your children,to whose ancestors you gave the sworn covenants of goodly promises!
22. Therefore to give us a lesson you punish our enemies with measured deliberationso that we may think earnestly of your goodness when we judge,and, when being judged, we may look for mercy.
23. Hence those unrighteous who lived a life of folly,you tormented through their own abominations.
24. For they went far astray in the paths of error,taking for gods the worthless and disgusting among beasts,being deceived like senseless infants.
25. Therefore as though upon unreasoning children,you sent your judgment on them as a mockery;