Chukmah Shalumah (Wisdom of Solomon) — 19
The Red Sea
1 But the Unrighteous were assailed to the end by pitiless anger, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH knew in advance even their future actions,
2 that, though they themselves had permitted your people to depart and hastily sent them forth, they would change their minds and pursue them.
3 For while they were still busy at mourning, and were lamenting at the graves of their dead, they reached another foolish decision, and pursued as fugitives those whom they had begged and compelled to depart.
4 For the fate they deserved drew them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, in order that they might fill up the punishment which their torments still lacked,
5 and that the people of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH might experience an incredible journey, but they themselves might meet a strange death.
YAHUAH Guides and Protects His People
6 For the whole creation in its nature was fashioned anew, complying with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH's commands, that His children might be kept unharmed.
7 The cloud was seen over shadowing the camp, and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging waves,
8 where those protected by thy hand passed through as one nation, after gazing on marvelous wonders.
9 For they ranged like horses, and leaped like lambs, they all Yadah 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, who did deliver them.
10 For they still recalled the events of their sojourn, how instead of producing animals the Arath brought forth gnats, and instead of fish the river spewed out vast numbers of frogs.
11 Afterward they saw also a new kind of bird's, when desire led them to ask for luxurious food;
12 for, to give them relief, quails came up from the sea.
The Punishment of the Mitzraym
13 The punishments did not come upon the sinners without prior signs in the violence of thunder, for they justly suffered because of their wicked acts; for they practiced a more bitter hatred of strangers.
14 Others had refused to receive strangers when they came to them, but these made slaves of guests who were their benefactors.
15 And not only so, but punishment of some sort will come upon the former for their hostile reception of the foreigners;
16 but the latter, after receiving them with festal celebrations, afflicted with terrible sufferings those who had already shared the same rights.
17 They were stricken also with loss of sight, just as were those at the door of the righteous man when surrounded by yawning darkness, each tried to find the way through his own door.
A New Harmony in Nature
18 For the elements changed places with one another, as on a harp the notes vary the nature of the rhythm, while each note remains the same, this may be clearly inferred from the sight of what took place.
19 For land animals were transformed into water creatures, and creatures that swim moved over to the land.
20 Fire even in water retained its normal power, and water forgot its fire quenching nature.
21 Flames, on the contrary, failed to consume the flesh of perishable creatures that walked among them, or did they melt the crystalline, easily melted kind of Shamaym food.
Conclusion
22 For in everything, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, you have exalted and esteemed your people; and you have not neglected to help them at all times and in all places.