5 Wasn’t water made sweet with wood, that its power might be known? (WEB)
Sirach 38:5
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2 Esdras 1:22–24
22 The Lord Almighty says, “When you were in the wilderness, at the bitter stream, being thirsty and blaspheming my name, (WEB) 23 I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but threw a tree in the water, and made the river sweet. (WEB) 24 What shall I do to you, O Jacob? You, Judah… (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 14:6–8
6 For in the old time also, when proud giants were perishing, the hope of the world, taking refuge on a raft, your hand guided the seed of generations of the race of men. (WEB) 7 For blessed is wood through which comes righteousness; (WEB) 8 but the idol made with hands is accur… (WEB)
James 3:10–12
10 Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not be! 11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? 12 My brothers, can a fig tree grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.
Psalms 114:7–8
7 Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob, 8 who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!
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)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:20–22
20 Instead of these things, you gave your people angels’ food to eat, and you provided ready-to-eat bread for them from heaven without toil, having the virtue of every pleasant flavor, and agreeable to every taste. (WEB) 21 For your nature showed your sweetness toward you… (WEB)
Odes of Solomon 30:2–4
2 And come all ye thirsty, and take the draught; and rest by the fountain of the Lord. (ODE) 3 For fair it is and pure and gives rest to the soul. Much more pleasant are its waters than honey; (ODE) 4 And the honeycomb of bees is not to be compared with it. (ODE)
Book of Jubilees 24:23–25
23 And he built an altar there, which Abraham his father had first built, and he called upon the name of the Lord, and he offered sacrifice to the God of Abraham his father. (JUB) 24 And they digged a well and they found living water. (JUB) 25 And the servants of Isaac digged anoth… (JUB)
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