11. And later they saw also a new kind of birdwhen, prompted by desire, they asked for pleasant foods;
12. For to appease them quail came to them from the sea.
13. And the punishments came upon the sinnersnot without forewarnings from the violence of the thunderbolts.For they justly suffered for their own misdeeds,since they treated their guests with the more grievous hatred.
14. For those others did not receive unfamiliar visitors,but these were enslaving beneficent guests.
15. And not that only; but what punishment was to be theirssince they received strangers unwillingly!
16. Yet these, after welcoming them with festivities,oppressed with awful toilsthose who had shared with them the same rights.
17. And they were struck with blindness,as those others had been at the doors of the righteous man—When, surrounded by yawning darkness,each sought the entrance of his own door.
18. For the elements, in ever-changing harmony,like strings of the harp, produce new melody,while the flow of music steadily persists.And this can be perceived exactly from a review of what took place.
19. For land creatures were changed into water creatures,and those that swam went over on land.
20. Fire in water maintained its own strength,and water forgot its quenching nature;
21. Flames, by contrast, neither consumed the fleshof the perishable animals that went about in them,nor melted the icelike, quick-melting kind of ambrosial food.
22. For every way, Lord! you magnified and glorified your people;unfailing, you stood by them in every time and circumstance.