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.