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;
12. For, to solace them, there came up for them quails from the sea.
13. And upon the sinners came the punishments Not without the tokens that were given beforehand by the force of the thunders; For justly did they suffer through their own wickednesses, For grievous indeed was the hatred which they practised toward guests.
14. For whereas the men of Sodom received not the strangers when they came among them; The Egyptians made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
15. And not only so, but God shall visit the men of Sodom after another sort, Since they received as enemies them that were aliens;