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.
9 They pranced about like horses let out to pasture; they skipped about like lambs and praised you, Lord, for saving them.
10 They still remembered what life had been like when they were slaves — how the earth bred gnats instead of cattle, how the river produced huge numbers of frogs instead of fish.
11-12 Later, when they desperately wanted better food, quails came up from the sea to satisfy their hunger. The quail was a bird they had never seen before.
13 But violent thunder gave warning of the punishment that was coming on those sinners. They suffered a well-deserved punishment for their great wickedness. No nation had ever hated strangers so bitterly.