OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 39:28

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There are winds that are created for vengeance, and in their fury they lay on their scourges heavily. In the time of reckoning, they pour out their strength, and will appease the wrath of him who made them.

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Verse 28. That. Greek “as he changed the waters into saltness,” ( Bible.) at Sodom, ( Calmet.) “his ways are plain for the saints: so to sinners they are stumbling-blocks.” verse 30. The Red Sea gave a passage to Israel, and overwhelmed the Egyptians. Bible.—Him. God does all with grandeur. He poured his graces upon Israel, and overwhelmed the giants in the deluge. Calmet.

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