2. That though they themselves had agreed to the departureand had anxiously sent them on their way,they would regret it and pursue them.
3. For while they were still engaged in funeral ritesand mourning at the burials of the dead,They adopted another senseless plan:those whom they had driven out with entreatiesthey now pursued as fugitives.
4. For a compulsion appropriate to this ending drew them on,and made them forget what had befallen them,That they might complete the torments of their punishment,
5. and your people might experience a glorious journeywhile those others met an extraordinary death.
6. For all creation, in its several kinds, was being made over anew,serving your commands, that your children might be preserved unharmed.
7. The cloud overshadowed their camp;and out of what had been water, dry land was seen emerging:Out of the Red Sea an unimpeded road,and a grassy plain out of the mighty flood.
8. Over this crossed the whole nation sheltered by your hand,and they beheld stupendous wonders.
9. For they ranged about like horses,and leapt like lambs,praising you, Lord, their deliverer.
10. For they were still mindful of what had happened in their sojourn:how instead of the young of animals the land brought forth gnats,and instead of fishes the river swarmed with countless frogs.
11. And later they saw also a new kind of birdwhen, prompted by desire, they asked for pleasant foods;
12. For to appease them quail came to them from the sea.
13. And the punishments came upon the sinnersnot without forewarnings from the violence of the thunderbolts.For they justly suffered for their own misdeeds,since they treated their guests with the more grievous hatred.
14. For those others did not receive unfamiliar visitors,but these were enslaving beneficent guests.
15. And not that only; but what punishment was to be theirssince they received strangers unwillingly!
16. Yet these, after welcoming them with festivities,oppressed with awful toilsthose who had shared with them the same rights.