1. But upon the ungodly there came to the end indignation without mercy; For their future also God foreknew,
2. How that, having changed their minds to let your people go, And having speeded them eagerly on their way, They would repent themselves and pursue them.
3. For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning, And making lamentation at the graves of the dead, They drew upon themselves another counsel of folly, And pursued as fugitives those whom with intreaties they had cast out.
4. For the doom which they deserved was drawing them to this end, And it made them forget the things that had befallen them, That they might fill up the punishment which was yet lacking to their torments,
5. And that your people might journey on by a marvelous road, But they themselves might find a strange death.
6. For the whole creation, each part in its several kind, was fashioned again anew, Ministering to your several commandments, That your servants might be guarded free from hurt.
7. Then the cloud that shadowed the camp was seen, And dry land rising up out of what before was water, Out of the Red sea an unhindered highway, And a grassy plain out of the violent surge;
8. By which they passed over with all their hosts, These that were covered with your hand, Having seen strange marvels.
9. For like horses they roamed at large, And they skipped about like lambs, Praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer.
10. For they still remembered the things that came to pass in the time of their sojourning, How that instead of bearing cattle the land brought forth lice, And instead of fish the river cast up a multitude of frogs.
11. But afterwards they saw also a new race of birds, When, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties;