23 I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but threw a tree in the water, and made the river sweet. (WEB)
2 Esdras 1:23
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Sirach 38:4–6
4 The Lord created medicines out of the earth. A prudent man will not despise them. (WEB) 5 Wasn’t water made sweet with wood, that its power might be known? (WEB) 6 He gave men skill that he might be glorified in his marvelous works. (WEB)
Odes of Solomon 28:12–14
12 For their thought is corrupt and their understanding perverted. (ODE) 13 But I was carrying water in my right hand, and their bitterness I endured by my sweetness; (ODE) 14 And I did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs. (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 11:17–19
17 Behold! all thy servants are fair, who do good works, and turn away from wickedness to the pleasantness that is thine: (ODE) 18 And they have turned back the bitterness of the trees from them, when they were planted in thy, land; (ODE) 19 And everything became like a relic of th… (ODE)
Sirach 39:22–24
22 His blessing covered the dry land as a river and saturated it as a flood. (WEB) 23 As he has made the waters salty, so the heathen will inherit his wrath. (WEB) 24 His ways are plain to the holy. They are stumbling blocks to the wicked. (WEB)
2 Esdras 16:3–5
3 A sword has been sent upon you, and who is there to turn it back? (WEB) 4 A fire has been sent upon you, and who is there to quench it? (WEB) 5 Calamities are sent upon you, and who is there to drive them away? (WEB)
Psalms 74:14–16
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan; You fed him to the creatures of the desert. 15 You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers. 16 The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
2 Esdras 1:13–15
13 “The Lord says, truly I brought you through the sea, and where there was no path I made highways for you. I gave you Moses for a leader and Aaron for a priest. (WEB) 14 I gave you light in a pillar of fire. I have done great wonders among you, yet you have forgotten me… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 11:6–8
6 When enemies were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain, (WEB) 7 to rebuke the decree for the slaying of babies, you gave them abundant water beyond all hope, (WEB) 8 having shown by the thirst which they had suffered how you punished the adver… (WEB)
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