1. But the impious, all the way to the very end, were overcome by anger without mercy. Indeed, he knew beforehand even their future.
2. Yet, seeing that they might have repented, so that they would be led by him and be sent forth with great concern, the just sought the impious, while regretting their deeds.
3. For, while the just were still holding grief in their hands and weeping at the tombs of the dead, these others took upon themselves another senseless thought, and they cast out the legislators and pursued them as if they were fugitives.
4. For a fitting necessity was leading them to this end, and they were losing the remembrance of those things which had happened, so that what was lacking in the sufferings of the conflict might be completed by the punishment,
5. and so that your people, indeed, might wonderfully pass through, but these others might find a new death.
6. For every creature according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, diligently serving your teachings, so that your children would be preserved unharmed.
7. For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea, a way without hindrance, and out of the great deep, a level field sprung up,
8. through which the whole nation passed, protected by your hand, seeing your miracles and wonders.
9. For they consumed food like horses, and they leapt about like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who had freed them.
10. For they were still mindful of those things which had happened during the time of their sojourn, how, instead cattle, the earth brought forth flies, and instead of fish, the river cast up a multitude of frogs.
11. And, lastly, they saw a new kind of bird, when, being led by their desire, they demanded a feast of meat.