Could you tell me what the passage is talking about?
Here's the entire passage in context:
For the whole creation in its own kind was reshaped anew, in obedience to your commands, so that your servants might be protected unharmed. The cloud was seen that overshadowed the camp, and the emergence of dry land where water had stood before, and unobstructed road out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging billow; through which those who were protected by your hand passed over as a nation, witnesing marvelous portents. For they ranged like horses and skipped like lambs, praising you, Lord, who had delivered them.
For they still remembered the things in their sojourning, how instead of the birth of animals the earth brought forth gnats, and instead of aquatic creatures the river vomited up a host of frogs. But later they saw a new production of birds also, when moved by appetite they asked for delicacies; for quails came up from the sea to their relief.
And those punishments came upon the sinners not without premonitory signs, in the violence of the thunders; for they suffered justly through their own wickedness, for they exhibited a more bitter hatred of strangers. For some would not receive men who did not know them, when they came to them, but these men made slaves of strangers who showed them kindness. And not only so, but those others shall have some consideration for the men they received with such hostility were aliens; but these men, though they had welcomed them with feasting, afflicted those who had already shared the same rights with them, with dreadful labors. And they were stricken with loss of sigt too, like those others, at the upright man's door, when, surrounded with yawning darkness, each one sought the way through his own doors.
For the elements changed in order with one another, just as on a harp the notes vary the character of the time, yet keep the pitch,
as one may accurately infer from the observation of what happened; for land animals were turned into water creatures, and swimming things changed to the land; fire retained its power in water, and water forgot its quanching property. Contrariwise, flames did not wither the flesh of perishable animals that walked about among them, nor was the easily melting ice-like kind of immortal food melted.
For in everything, you, Lord, magnified and glorified your people, and you did not neglect them, but stood by them at every time and place.
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It's quite a nice bit of poetry, really, showing the Hebrew tendency to parallel ideas. The paragraph breakdown and bolding is mine - I think it makes it easier to see the structure of the passage. It's obviously talking about the Exodus, and the main point of the passage is summed up in the final sentence.
Nothing to do with evolution.
