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: