The wind, which had subsided after sunrise, was increasing in strength and power, and rapidly becoming a storm.

It swept across the isthmus in gusts, which followed one another more and more swiftly, driving before them dense clouds of yellow sand.
He must lift up his voice loudly, that the God to whom he prayed might hear him in His lofty heaven, so, with all the strength of his young lungs, he shouted into the storm: "Adonai, Adonai! Thou, whom they call Jehovah, mighty God of my fathers, hear me, Ephraim, a young inexperienced lad, of whom, in his insignificance, Thou hast probably never thought.

I ask nothing for myself.

But the people, whom Thou dost call Thine, are in sore peril.
They have left durable houses and good pastures because Thou didst promise them a better and more beautiful land, and they trusted in Thee and Thy promises.

But now the army of Pharaoh is approaching, so great a host that our people will never be able to resist it.