18 They wandered in deserts that their lives might be saved from harm, And precious in the eyes of them that lived abroad was any that escaped alive from them. Over the whole earth were they scattered by lawless men. (PSS) 19 For the heavens withheld the rain from dropping upon the earth, Springs were stopped that sprang perennially out of the deeps, that ran down from lofty mountains. (PSS) 20 For there was none among them that wrought righteousness and justice; From the chief of them to the least of them all were sinful; The king was a transgressor, and the judge disobedient, and the people sinful. (PSS)
Psalms of Solomon 17:18–20
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