1 Your decisions are difficult to explain, and people who have not been taught have followed the wrong path.
2 For example, those lawless Egyptians thought that your chosen people were under their power. But they themselves became prisoners in their very own homes for a long, dark night, because they were not under the protection of your eternal care.
3-4 They thought that you had forgotten and that their secret sins were hidden behind a curtain of darkness, when gruesome creatures seemed to appear. Nowhere in their homes were they safe from the fear of terrifying noises and the frightening faces of gloomy ghosts.
5 On that miserable night, the darkness was so thick that neither flaming lamps nor bright stars could be seen.