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But as to the wicked, even to the end there came upon them wrath without mercy. For he knew before also what they would do:
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For when they had given them leave to depart, and had sent them away with great care, they repented, and pursued after them.
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For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:
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For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:
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And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.
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For every creature according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.
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For a cloud overshadowed their camp, and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hinderance, and out of the great deep a springing field:
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Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles and wonders.
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For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.