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) 19 For the heavens withheld the rain from dropping upon the earth, Springs were stopped that sprang perennially out of the deeps, that ran down from lofty mountains. (PSS)
Psalms of Solomon 17:17–19
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