[1] But for your holy ones there was very great light.
Their enemies heard their voices but did not see their forms,
and counted them happy for not having suffered,
[2] and were thankful that your holy ones, though
previously wronged, were doing them no injury;
and they begged their pardon for having been
at variance with them.
[3] Therefore you did provide a flaming pillar of fire
as a guide for your people's unknown journey,
and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.
[4] For their enemies deserved to be deprived of
light and imprisoned in darkness,
those who had kept your sons imprisoned,
through whom the imperishable light of the
law was to be given to the world.
Their enemies heard their voices but did not see their forms,
and counted them happy for not having suffered,
[2] and were thankful that your holy ones, though
previously wronged, were doing them no injury;
and they begged their pardon for having been
at variance with them.
[3] Therefore you did provide a flaming pillar of fire
as a guide for your people's unknown journey,
and a harmless sun for their glorious wandering.
[4] For their enemies deserved to be deprived of
light and imprisoned in darkness,
those who had kept your sons imprisoned,
through whom the imperishable light of the
law was to be given to the world.
IMAGE: William West, The Israelites Led by the Pillar of Fire by Night (c. 1845)
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