Wisdom of Solomon 19:2–12

² how, 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. (WEB) ³ For 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. (WEB) ⁴ For 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, (WEB) ⁵ and that your people might journey on by a marvelous road, but they themselves might find a strange death. (WEB) ⁶ For the whole creation, each part in its diverse kind, was made new again, complying with your commandments, that your servants might be kept unharmed. (WEB) ⁷ Then 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, (WEB) ⁸ by which they passed over with all their army, these who were covered with your hand, having seen strange marvels. (WEB) ⁹ For like horses they roamed at large, and they skipped about like lambs, praising you, O Lord, who was their deliverer. (WEB) ¹⁰ For 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. (WEB) ¹¹ But afterwards, they also saw a new kind of birds, when, led on by desire, they asked for luxurious dainties; (WEB) ¹² for, to comfort them, quails came up for them from the sea. (WEB)