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For by the same means with which you punished our adversaries,
    you glorified us whom you had summoned.(A)
For in secret the holy children of the good were offering sacrifice
    and carried out with one mind the divine institution,[a]
So that your holy ones should share alike the same blessings and dangers,
    once they had sung the ancestral hymns of praise.(B)
10 But the discordant cry of their enemies echoed back,
    and the piteous wail of mourning for children was borne to them.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 18:9 Divine institution: the Passover. Ancestral hymns of praise: possibly the Hallel psalms, the psalms sung at the end of the Passover meal; cf. Mt 26:30; Mk 14:26.