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For the whole creation with its varied elements was fashioned anew[a]
    in compliance with your commands
    so that your children might be preserved safe and sound.
The cloud was seen to overshadow the camp,
    and dry land emerged where previously water had flowed.
In the midst of the Red Sea an unobstructed road appeared,
    a grassy plain arising out of the raging waves,
over which crossed the entire nation protected by your hand
    after beholding marvelous wonders.
For they frolicked about like horses
    and bounded about like lambs,
    praising you, O Lord, who delivered them.

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Footnotes

  1. Wisdom 19:6 Fashioned anew: a principle of interpretation of sacred history: creation and its various elements are at the service of the divine plan for the salvation of Israel and the defeat of the wicked.