1Forsooth ire [or wrath] without mercy came on wicked men [or the unpious] till into the last, that is, till to the drowning of them; for why God before-knew also the things to coming [or to come] of them.

2For when they were turned, and had suffered, that they should lead out them, and had before-sent them with great busyness, the deeds of repenting pursued them.

3For they having yet mourning betwixt the hands, and they be-weeping at the sepulchres of dead men [or weeping at the monuments of the dead], took to them another thought of unknowing; and they pursued those Hebrews, as fleers away, which they praying had sent forth.

4For why worthy need [or necessity] led them to this end, and they lost remembering of these things, that had befallen, that punishing should [ful] fill those things, that failed [or lacked] of torments,

5and that soothly thy people should pass wonderfully; forsooth that they should find a new death.

6For why each creature serving to thine behests, was reformed to his kind at [or from] the beginning, that thy children should be kept unhurt.

7For why a cloud beshadowed the castles [or the tents] of them, and dry earth appeared in water that was before, and a way without hindering appeared in the Reed Sea, and a field burgeoning from full great depth; [For a cloud shadowed the tents of them, and in the water that was before, the earth appeared dry; and in the Red Sea way without hindrance, and a burgeoning field of full great depth;]

8by which field all the nation passed, that was covered with thine hand; forsooth they saw thy marvels and wonders.

9For they as horses devoured [or gnawed] meat, that is, took the armours of Egyptians, which they saw dead on the brink of the sea, and as lambs they made full out joy, magnifying thee, Lord, that [or for thou] deliveredest them.

10For they were mindful yet of those things, that were done in the dwelling of them among Egyptians; how the land brought forth flies, for the nation of beasts, and the flood brought forth multitude of paddocks [or frogs] for fishes.

11Forsooth at the last they saw a new creature of birds, when they were led by covetousness [or lust], and asked meats of feast [or of delicious eating].

12For in the speaking to, that is, at the asking of them, of their desire, a curlew ascended [or went up] to them from the sea;

13and dis-eases [or travails] came on sinners, and not without provings [or evidences] of those things, that were done before by the fierceness [or the force] of floods. For they suffered justly, by [or after] their wickednesses; for they ordained more abominable unhospitality.

14Soothly some received not unknown comelings; soothly others took good men harboured into thralldom [or good guests into servage].

15And not only they did these things, but soothly also another beholding [or respect] of them was, that they against their will received strangers.

16Forsooth they that used the same ordinances, tormented with cruelest sorrows them, that received with gladness. [Who forsooth with gladness received them, that had used the same informings, with most cruel sorrows they tormented.]

17Forsooth they were smitten with blindness, as they in the gates of the just man [or the rightwise], when they were covered with sudden darknesses; each man sought the passing of his door.

18Forsooth while elements be turned into themselves, as the sound of manner [or of quality] is changed in organ, and all things keep their sound; wherefore it may be guessed of that certain sight.

19Beasts of the field were turned into beasts of water; whatever were swimming things, went in the land.

20Fire in water had power above [or strength over] his virtue; and water forgot the kind quenching [or his quenching kind].

21Again-ward flames of corruptible beasts dis-eased not the fleshes of Hebrews going together; neither departed that good meat, that was departed lightly as ice. [Flames again-ward travailed not the flesh of the corruptible beasts going together; nor dissolved it, that lightly was dissolved as ice, good meat.]

22Forsooth, Lord, thou magnifiedest thy people in all things, and honouredest; and despisedest not, and helpedest them in each time and in each place [or in all place standing nigh to them].