Chukmah Shalumah (Wisdom of Solomon) — 12
1 For your immortal RUACH is in all things.
2 Therefore you do correct little by little those who trespass, and do remind and warn them of the things where they sin, that they may be freed from wickedness and put their trust in you, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
The Sins of the Canaanites
3 Those who dwelt of old in your Qadash land
4 You hate them for their detestable practices, their works of sorcery and Unrighteous rites,
5 their merciless slaughter of children, and their sacrificial feasting on man's flesh and blood. These initiates from the midst of a heathen cult,
6 these parents who murder helpless lives, you destroyed them by the hands of our fathers,
7 that the land most precious of all to You might receive a worthy colony of the servants of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
8 But even these you did spare, since they were but men, and did send Malakym as forerunners of your army, to destroy them little by little,
9 though you did not give the Unrighteous into the hands of the righteous in battle, or to destroy them at one blow by dread wild beasts or your stern word.
10 But judging them little by little You gave them a chance to repent, though you were not unaware that their origin was evil and their wickedness inborn, and that their way of thinking would never change.
11 For they were an accursed race from the beginning, and it was not through fear of any one that you did leave them unpunished for their sins.
YAHUAH Is Sovereign ALUAH
12 For who will say, “What have you done?” Or will resist your judgment? Who will accuse you for the destruction of nations which you did make? Or who will come before you to plead as an advocate for unrighteous men?
13 For neither is there any one besides You, whose care is for all men, to whom you should prove that you have not judged unjustly;
14 nor can any king or monarch confront you about those whom you have punished.
15 You are righteous and rule all things righteously, deeming it foreigner to your power to condemn him who does not deserve to be punished.
16 For your strength is the source of righteousness, and your sovereignty over all causes you to spare all.
17 For you do show your strength when men doubt the completeness of your power, and do rebuke any insolence among those who know it.
18 You in your sovereign in strength do judge with mildness, and with great forbearance you do govern us; for you have power to act whenever you do choose.
YAHUAH’s Lessons for Yashar'AL
19 Through such works you have taught your people that the righteous man must be kind, and you have filled your sons with good hope, because you givest repentance for sins.
20 For if you did punish with such great care and indulgence the enemies of your servants and those deserving of death, granting them time and opportunity to give up their wickedness,
21 with what strictness you have judged your sons, to whose fathers you gave oaths and covenants full of good promises!
22 So while chastening us you scourgesd our enemies ten thousand times more, so that we may meditate upon your goodness when we judge, and when we are judged we may expect mercy.
The Punishment of the Mitzraym
23 Therefore those who in folly of life lived unrighteously You did torment them through their own abominations.
24 For they went far astray on the paths of error, accepting as mighty ones those animals which even their enemies despised; they were deceived like foolish babes.
25 Therefore, as to thoughtless children, you did still send your judgment to mock them.
26 But those who have not heeded the warning of light rebukes will experience the deserved judgment of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
27 For when in their suffering they became incensed at those creatures which they had thought to be mighty ones, being punished by means of them, they saw and recognized as the true 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH him whom they had before refused to know. Therefore the utmost condemnation came upon them.