When he set, in Egypt, his signs, And his wonders, in the plain of Zoan; When he turned, into blood, their Nile-streams, And, their own rivers, could they not drink; He sent among them, The gad-fly, and it devoured them, And the frog, and it despoiled them; read more.
When he gave to the corn-locust their produce, And their toil, to the swarming locust; He killed, with hail, their vine, And their sycomores, with frost: When he gave up, to hail-storms, their beasts, And their cattle, to pestilent fevers; He sent among them the heat of his anger, Wrath and indignation and distress, - A mission of messengers of misfortune: He leveled a path for his anger, Withheld not, from death, their soul, But, their life - to the pestilence, he delivered: So he smote, Every first-born in Egypt, The beginning of their strength, in the tents of Ham;