5. For even when terrible raging of wild beasts came upon your people, And they were perishing by the bites of crooked serpents, Your wrath continued not to the uttermost;
6. But for admonition were they troubled for a short space, Having a token of salvation, To put them in remembrance of the commandment of your law:
7. For he that turned toward it was not saved because of that which was seen, But because of you, the Saviour of all.
8. Yes, and in this did you persuade our enemies, That you are he that delivers out of every evil.
9. For them verily the bites of locusts and flies did kill, And there was not found a healing for their life, Because they were worthy to be punished by such as these;
10. But your sons not the very teeth of venomous dragons overcame, For your mercy passed by where they were, and healed them.
11. For they were bitten, to put them in remembrance of your oracles; And were quickly saved, lest, falling into deep forgetfulness, They should become unable to be roused by your beneficence:
12. For of a truth it was neither herb nor mollifying plaister that cured them, But your word, O Lord, which heals all things;
13. For you have authority over life and death, And you lead down to the gates of Hades, and lead up again.
14. But though a man may kill by his wickedness, Yet the spirit that is gone forth he turns not again, Neither gives release to the soul that Hades has received.
15. But your hand it is not possible to escape;