But upon the ungodly there came unto the end indignation without mercy;

2 How that, having changed their minds to let thy people go,

3 For while they were yet in the midst of their mourning,

4 For the doom which they deserved was drawing them unto this end,

5 And that thy people might journey on by a marvelous road,

6 For the whole creation, each part in its several kind, was fashioned again anew,

7 Then was beheld the cloud that shadowed the camp,

8 By which they passed over with all their hosts,

9 For like horses they roamed at large,

10 For they still remembered the things that came to pass in the time of their sojourning,

11 But afterward they saw also a new race of birds,

12 For, to solace them, there came up for them quails from the sea.

13 And upon the sinners came the punishments

14 For whereas the men of Sodom received not the strangers when they came among them;

15 And not only so, but God shall visit the men of Sodom after another sort,

16 Whereas these first welcomed with feastings,

17 And moreover they were stricken with loss of sight

18 For as the notes of a psaltery vary the character of the rhythm,

19 For creatures of the dry land were turned into creatures of the waters,

20 Fire kept the mastery of its own power in the midst of water,

21 Contrariwise, flames wasted not the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them;

22 For in all things, O Lord, thou didst magnify thy people,