8. For as you did take vengeance on the adversaries, By the same means, calling us to yourself, you did glorify us.
9. For holy children of good men offered sacrifice in secret, And with one consent they took upon themselves the covenant of the divine law, That they would partake alike in the same good things and the same perils; The fathers already leading the sacred songs of praise.
10. But there sounded back in discord the cry of the enemies, And a piteous voice of lamentation for children was borne abroad.
11. And servant along with master punished with a like just doom, And commoner suffering the same as king,
12. Yes, all the people together, under one form of death, Had with them corpses without number; For the living were not sufficient even to bury them, Since at a single stroke their nobler offspring was consumed.
13. For while they were disbelieving all things by reason of the enchantments, Upon the destruction of the firstborn they confessed the people to be God’s son.
14. For while peaceful silence enwrapped all things, And night in her own swiftness was in mid course,
15. Your all-powerful word leaped from heaven out of the royal throne, A stern warrior, into the midst of the doomed land,