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⁷ The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp,
and dry land emerging where water had stood before,
an unhindered way out of the Red Sea,
and a grassy plain out of the raging waves,
⁸ where those protected by your hand passed through as one nation,
after gazing on marvellous wonders.
⁹ For they ranged like horses,
and leapt like lambs,
praising you, O Lord, who delivered them.
¹⁰ For they still recalled the events of their sojourn,
how instead of producing animals the earth brought forth gnats,
and instead of fish the river spewed out vast numbers of frogs.
¹¹ Afterwards they saw also a new kind^* of birds,
when desire led them to ask for luxurious food;
¹² for, to give them relief, quails came up from the sea.

The Punishment of the Egyptians

¹³ The punishments did not come upon the sinners
without prior signs in the violence of thunder,
for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts;
for they practised a more bitter hatred of strangers.
¹⁴ Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them,
but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
¹⁵ And not only so—but, while punishment of some sort will come upon the former
for having received strangers with hostility,
¹⁶ the latter, having first received them with festal celebrations,
afterwards afflicted with terrible sufferings
those who had already shared the same rights.
¹⁷ They were stricken also with loss of sight—
just as were those at the door of the righteous man—
when, surrounded by yawning darkness,
all of them tried to find the way through their own doors.