14 Being an alien the enemy acted proudly, And his heart was alien from Our God. (PSS) 15 And all things whatsoever he did in Jerusalem, As also the nations in the cities to their gods. (PSS) 16 And the children of the covenant in the midst of the mingled peoples surpassed them in evil. There was not among them one that wrought in the midst of Jerusalem mercy and truth. (PSS) 17 They that loved the synagogues of the pious fled from them, As sparrows that fly from their nest. (PSS) 18 They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved from harm, And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that escaped alive from them. Over the whole earth were they scattered by lawless men. (PSS)
Psalms of Solomon 17:14–18
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