3 They withstood enemies, and repelled foes.
4 They thirsted, and they called upon you, And there was given them water out of the flinty rock, And healing of their thirst out of the hard stone.
5 For by what things their foes were punished, By these they in their need were benefited.
6 When the enemy were troubled with clotted blood instead of a river’s ever-flowing fountain,
7 To rebuke the decree for the slaying of babes, You gave them abundant water beyond all hope,
8 Having shewn them by the thirst which they had suffered how you did punish the adversaries.
9 For when they were tried, albeit but in mercy chastened, They learned how the ungodly were tormented, being judged with wrath: