1 Therefore they were fittingly punished by similar creatures,and were tormented by a swarm of insects.
2 Instead of this punishment, you benefited your peoplewith a novel dish, the delight they craved,by providing quail for their food,
3 So that those others, when they desired food,should lose their appetite even for necessities,since the creatures sent to plague them were so loathsome,While these, after a brief period of privation,partook of a novel dish.
4 For inexorable want had to come upon those oppressors;but these needed only to be shown how their enemies were being tormented.