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Yet all the while a brilliant light was shining for your holy people. Their enemies heard their voices, but couldn't see them. They envied the good fortune of your people, who were not suffering.
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Those enemies could at least be thankful that the people they had wronged were not taking vengeance on them now, and so they begged them to leave.
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Then you guided your people as they traveled through a country they did not know. You guided them with a pillar of fire. It was like a sun that would not harm them on that glorious journey.
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But their enemies, who were not allowed to see the light, deserved to be prisoners in darkness, because they had made prisoners of your people. And it was through your people that the eternal light of the Law was going to be given to the world.
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When your enemies were carrying out their resolve to kill the babies of your holy people, there was one child who was abandoned but later rescued. Then you punished your enemies by killing a great number of their own children. You drowned their whole army at one time in the rushing waters.
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But our ancestors had been told in advance of what would happen that night, so that they would be cheered and encouraged by confident trust in your promises to them.
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Your people knew that you would rescue the righteous nation and destroy their enemies.
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With the same act you punished our enemies and did us the glorious honor of calling us to yourself.
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During all this time devout people from this righteous nation were secretly offering sacrifices, giving their word to each other that they would keep God's law and share each other's blessings and dangers. Already they were chanting those ancient hymns of praise.
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But their enemies' pitiful cries of grief echoed everywhere, as they mourned for their dead children.
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Masters suffered the same punishment as their slaves; the king endured the same loss as the common people.