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21 The sustenance you offered manifested your kindly mercy to your children,
    for the bread that conformed to the desire of those who ate it
    was transformed to appeal to each one’s preference.
22 Snow and ice[a] withstood the fire and did not melt,
    so that they would realize that the harvesters of their enemies
were destroyed by a fire that blazed in the hail
    and flashed through the falling rain;
23 whereas, that same fire even forgot its own strength
    so that the righteous might be fed.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom 16:22 Snow and ice: i.e., the manna (v. 27; Wis 19:21). It is compared to dew (Ex 16:14) and to ice (Num 11:7 LXX).