7 to punish the Egyptians for ordering the Hebrew children to be killed, then you surprised everyone by providing your people with more than enough water to satisfy their thirst.
8-9 You mercifully let your people go thirsty for a while to show how severely you would punish their ungodly enemies in your anger.
10 You corrected your people like parents correcting their children as a warning, but you punished the others like a harsh king condemning a criminal.
11 All the Egyptians suffered—those who lived near your people and those who lived far away.
12 In fact, they suffered at the time of these disasters and again whenever they remembered what had happened.
13 And when the Egyptians learned that your people had benefited from these troubles, they realized that you, Lord, had done it all.
14 Earlier they had made fun of Moses, who had been placed outside to die when he was a baby, but now they were amazed at him, because they suffered from thirst much more severely than your people.