3 The birds dropped their wings and all creeping things died in their holes: and the abysses were opened which had been hidden; and they cried to the Lord like women in travail: (ODE) 4 And no food was given to them, because it did not belong to them; (ODE) 5 And they sealed up the abysses with the seal of the Lord. And they perished, in the thought, those that had existed from ancient times; (ODE)
Odes of Solomon 24:3–5
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