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;