12 Medicine isn't what healed them. Only your word can heal,
13 because you rule both life and death and possess the power to give life or to take it away.
14 It's easy enough for us humans to kill another in anger, but we don't have the power to bring back a departed spirit or to set a soul free from the world of the dead.
15 No one can escape from you, our God.
16 And when those evil Egyptians rejected you and tried to escape, you punished them with your mighty arm and wiped them out with rainstorms, hailstones, and fiery lightning.
17 Although water is used to put out a fire, an amazing thing happened—the water made the fire even more destructive, because nature itself protects good people.
18 One time you kept the fire under control, so that it would not destroy the frogs and flies that were sent to punish those pagans and to let them know you were the one doing all of this.