1. Therefore they were fittingly punished by similar creatures,and were tormented by a swarm of insects.
2. Instead of this punishment, you benefited your peoplewith a novel dish, the delight they craved,by providing quail for their food,
3. So that those others, when they desired food,should lose their appetite even for necessities,since the creatures sent to plague them were so loathsome,While these, after a brief period of privation,partook of a novel dish.
4. For inexorable want had to come upon those oppressors;but these needed only to be shown how their enemies were being tormented.
5. For when the dire venom of beasts came upon themand they were dying from the bite of crooked serpents,your anger endured not to the end.