Good News Translation
They were to meet a strange death, while your people continued on their miraculous journey.

New Revised Standard Version
The cloud was seen overshadowing the camp, and dry land emerging where water had stood before, an unhindered way out of the Red Sea, and a grassy plain out of the raging waves,

Contemporary English Version
by dying an unusual death and so that your people would have an amazing journey.

New American Bible
The cloud overshadowed their camp; and out of what had been water, dry land was seen emerging: Out of the Red Sea an unimpeded road, and a grassy plain out of the mighty flood.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.

And that thy people might wonderfully pass through, but they might find a new death.

Wisdom 19:3
For whilst they were yet mourning, and lamenting at the graves of the dead, they took up another foolish device: and pursued them as fugitives whom they had pressed to be gone:

Wisdom 19:4
For a necessity, of which they were worthy, brought them to this end: and they lost the remembrance of those things which had happened, that their punishment might fill up what was wanting to their torments:

Wisdom 19:6
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.

Wisdom 19:7
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: