Reading I
Wis 18:14-16; 19:6-9
For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,
Thy Almighty word leaped down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction,
With a sharp sword carrying thy unfeigned commandment, and he stood and filled all things with death, and standing on the earth, reached even to heaven.
For every creature, according to its kind was fashioned again as from the beginning, obeying thy commandments, that thy children might be kept without hurt.
For a cloud overshadowed their camps and where water was before, dry land appeared, and in the Red Sea a way without hindrance, and out of the great deep a springing field:
Through which all the nation passed which was protected with thy hand, seeing thy miracles and wonders.
For they fed on their food like horses, and they skipped like lambs, praising thee, O Lord, who hadst delivered them.
