5
For when the horrible fierceness of beasts came upon these, and they perished with the stings of crooked serpents, thy wrath endured not for ever:
6
But they were troubled for a small season, that they might be admonished, having a sign of salvation, to put them in remembrance of the commandment of thy law.
7
For he that turned himself toward it was not saved by the thing that he saw, but by thee, that art the Saviour of all.
8
And in this thou madest thine enemies confess, that it is thou who deliverest from all evil:
9
For them the bitings of grasshoppers and flies killed, neither was there found any remedy for their life: for they were worthy to be punished by such.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.