1 For this cause, they were deservedly punished through creatures like those which they worship, and tormented through a multitude of vermin. (WEB) 2 Instead of this punishment, you, giving benefits to your people, prepared quails for food, a delicacy to satisfy the desire of their appetite, (WEB) 3 to the end that your enemies, desiring food, might for the hideousness of the creatures sent among them, loathe even the necessary appetite; but these, your people, having for a short time suffered lack, might even partake of delicacies. (WEB)
Wisdom of Solomon 16:1–3
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