Wisdom 19:1–9

¹But indignation without mercy came upon the ungodly to the end; for God also foreknew their future,↗

²how, having changed their minds to let your people go, and having sped them eagerly on their way, they would change their minds and pursue them.↗

³For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they made another foolish decision, and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged to leave and driven out.↗

⁴For the doom which they deserved was drawing them to this end, and it made them forget the things that had happened to them, that they might fill up the punishment which was yet lacking from their torments,↗

⁵and that your people might journey on by a marvelous road, but they themselves might find a strange death.↗

⁶For the whole creation, each part in its diverse kind, was made new again, complying with your commandments, that your servants might be kept unharmed.↗

⁷Then the cloud that overshadowed the camp was seen, and dry land rising up out of what had been water, out of the Red sea an unhindered highway, and a grassy plain out of the violent surge,↗

⁸by which they passed over with all their army, these who were covered with your hand, having seen strange marvels.↗

⁹For like horses they roamed at large, and they skipped about like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer.↗