1 She prospered their works by a holy prophet's hand.
2 They crossed an uninhabited desert, and in untrodden places they placed tabernacles.
3 They stood against attackers and warded off enemies.
4 They thirsted and called upon You, and water was given to them out of sharp rock, and a remedy of thirst from hard stone.
5 Indeed, through the things their enemies had been chastised by*, through these things they, when obstructed, were benefitted.
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Notes:
v 5 Or, "through the things their enemies had been badly in need of...". See Liddell Scott Jones, κολάζω, heading 4.