Wisdom 16:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ For at one time, the fire was mitigated, that the beasts which were sent against the wicked might not be burned, but that they might see and perceive that they were persecuted by the judgment of God.

¹⁹ And at another time the fire, above its own power, burned in the midst of water, to destroy the fruits of a wicked land.

²⁰ Instead of which things thou didst feed thy people with the food of angels, and gavest them bread from heaven prepared without labour; having in it all that is delicious, and the sweetness of every taste.