Wisdom 19:10–18

¹⁰For they still remembered the things that happened in the time of their sojourning, how instead of bearing cattle, the land brought forth lice, and instead of fish, the river spewed out a multitude of frogs.↗

¹¹But afterwards, they also saw a new kind of birds, when, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties;↗

¹²for, to comfort them, quails came up for them from the sea.↗

¹³Punishments came upon the sinners, not without the signs that were given beforehand by the violence of the thunder, for they justly suffered through their own wickednesses, for the hatred which they practiced toward guests was grievous indeed.↗

¹⁴For while the others didn’t receive the strangers when they came to them, the Egyptians made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.↗

¹⁵And not only so, but while punishment of some sort will come upon the former, since they received as enemies those who were aliens;↗

¹⁶because these first welcomed with feastings, and then afflicted with dreadful toils, those who had already shared with them in the same rights.↗

¹⁷And moreover they were stricken with loss of sight (even as were those others at the righteous man’s doors), when, being surrounded with yawning darkness, they each looked for the passage through his own door.↗

¹⁸For as the notes of a lute vary the character of the rhythm, even so the elements, changing their order one with another, continuing always in its sound, as may clearly be conjectured from the sight of the things that have happened.↗