1
But the godless continued to feel your pitiless anger until the very end. You knew what they would do before they did it.
2
You knew that even though they let your people go and made them leave quickly, they would change their minds and pursue them.
3
While the Egyptians were still mourning at the graves of their dead, they forgot why all this had happened, and they foolishly decided that the people they had begged to leave were runaways. So they chased after them. They were led into this as part of the punishment they deserved, so that they would suffer the rest of the torments they were due to receive.
5
They were to meet a strange death, while your people continued on their miraculous journey.
6
The whole nature of the universe was changed at your command so that your people would not be harmed.
7
They saw the cloud over their camp and dry land where water had been. There was a grass-covered plain between the stormy waves of the Red Sea, making it easy for them to cross over.
8
All your people, under your protection, saw this miracle and went across.