Wisdom 16:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Instead of this punishment, you benefited your people
with a novel dish, the delight they craved,
by providing quail for their food,(A)
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.(B)
4 For inexorable want had to come upon those oppressors;
but these needed only to be shown how their enemies were being tormented.(C)
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