4. For they deserved to be deprived of light and imprisoned by darkness,they had kept your children confined,through whom the imperishable light of the law was to be given to the world.
5. When they determined to put to death the infants of the holy ones,and when a single boy had been cast forth and then saved,As a reproof you carried off a multitude of their childrenand made them perish all at once in the mighty water.
6. That night was known beforehand to our ancestors,so that, with sure knowledge of the oaths in which they put their faith, they might have courage.
7. The expectation of your peoplewas the salvation of the righteous and the destruction of their foes.
8. For by the same means with which you punished our adversaries,you glorified us whom you had summoned.
9. For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrificeand carried out with one mind the divine institution,So that your holy ones should share alike the same blessings and dangers,once they had sung the ancestral hymns of praise.
10. But the discordant cry of their enemies echoed back,and the piteous wail of mourning for children was borne to them.