6 black and again bright how this was done twelve times, but the black were always more numerous (2BA) 7 than the bright. And it came to pass at the end of the cloud, that lo! it rained black waters, and they were darker than had been all those waters that were before, and fire was mingled (2BA) 8 with them, and where those waters descended, they wrought devastation and destruction. And after these things I saw how that lightning which I had seen on the summit of the cloud, seized (2BA)
2 Baruch 53:6–8
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2 Baruch 56:9–10
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Psalms 18:11–13
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