Conclusion, Wisdom of Solomon

19: 1 - 22 (translation by Edgar J. Goodspeed)
"But, on the ungodly, pitiless anger came to the uttermost, for God knew their future beforehand, that after permitting them to go away, and sending them off in haste, they would change their minds and pursue/ they had changed their minds to permit.  For while they were still busy with their mourning, and were lamenting beside the graves of the dead, they involved themselves in another foolish design, and pursued as runaways those whom they had driven out with entreaties.
For the fate they deserved dragged them on to this end, and made them forget what had happened, so that they should make up the punishment that their torments lacked, and your people should experience / accomplish an incredible journey, while they themselves should find a strange death.  For the whole creation in its own kind was reshaped anew, in obedience to Your commands, so that your children might be protected unharmed.  The cloud was seen that overshadowed the camp, and the emergence of dry land where water had stood before, an unobstructed road out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging billow; through which those who were protected by Your hand passed over as a nation, witnessing marvelous portents.  For they ranged like horses and skipped like lambs, praising You, Lord, who had delivered them.  For they still remembered the things in their sojourning, how instead of the birth of animals the earth brought forth gnats, and instead of aquatic creatures the river vomited up a host of frogs.  But later they saw a new kind/ production of birds also, when moved by appetite they asked for delicacies; for quails came up from the sea to their relief.  And those punishments came upon the sinners not without premonitory signs, in the violence of the thunders; for they suffered justly through their own wickedness, for they exhibited a more bitter hatred of strangers.  For some would not receive strangers, when they came to them, but these men made slaves of guests who showed them kindness.  And not only so, but those others shall have some consideration for those they received with such hostility were aliends; but these, though they had welcomed the others with feasting, afflicted those who had already shared the same rights with them, with dreadful labors.  And they were stricken with loss of sight too, like those others, at the upright man's door, when, surrounded with yawning darkness, each one sought the way through his own doors.  For the elements changing places with one another, just as on a harp the notes vary the character of the time, yet keep the pitch (unclear meaning), as one may accurately infer from the observation of what happened; for land animals were turned into water creatures, and swimming things changed to the land; fire retained its power in water, and water forgot its quenching property.  Contrariwise, flames did not wither the flesh of perishable animals that walked about among them, nor was the easily melting ice-like kind of immortal food melted.  For in everything, You, Lord, magnified and glorified Your people, and You did not neglect them, but stood by them at every time and place."