¹⁵ You ^(A)provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger,
You ^(B)brought out water from a rock for them for their thirst,
And You ^(C)told them to enter in order to take possession of
The land which You ^[a]swore to give them.

²⁰ Instead, ^(A)You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them,
You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth,
And You gave them water for their thirst.

²⁴ He ^(A)rained down manna upon them to eat,
And gave them ^[a](B)food from heaven.
²⁵ Man ate the bread of ^[b]angels;
He sent them ^[c]food ^[d](C)in abundance.
²⁶ He ^(D)made the east wind blow in the sky
And by His ^[e]power He directed the south wind.
²⁷ When He rained meat upon them like the dust,
Even ^(E)winged fowl like the sand of the seas,
²⁸ He let them fall in the midst of ^[f]their camp,
All around their dwellings.
²⁹ So they ^(F)ate and were well filled,
And He ^[g]satisfied their longing.
^30 [h]Yet before they had abandoned their longing,
^(G)While their food was in their mouths,
³¹ The ^(H)anger of God rose against them
And killed ^[i]some of their ^(I)strongest ones,
And ^[j]subdued the choice men of Israel.
³² In spite of all this they ^(J)still sinned
And ^(K)did not believe in His wonderful works.
³³ So He brought ^(L)their days to an end in futility,
And their years to an end in sudden terror.

³⁴ When He killed them, then they ^(M)sought Him,
And they returned and searched ^(N)diligently for God;
³⁵ And they remembered that God was their ^(O)rock,
And the Most High God their ^(P)Redeemer.
³⁶ But they ^(Q)flattered Him with their mouth
And ^(R)lied to Him with their tongue.
³⁷ For their heart was not ^(S)steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful with His covenant.
³⁸ But He, being ^(T)compassionate, ^[k](U)forgave their wrongdoing and did not destroy them;
And often He ^[l](V)restrained His anger
And did not stir up all His wrath.
³⁹ So ^(W)He remembered that they were only ^(X)flesh,
A ^[m](Y)wind that passes and does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they ^(Z)rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And ^(AA)grieved Him in the ^(AB)desert!
⁴¹ Again and again they ^[n](AC)tempted God,
And pained the ^(AD)Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(AE)did not remember ^(AF)His ^[o]power,
The day when He ^(AG)redeemed them from the enemy,
⁴³ When He performed His ^(AH)signs in Egypt
And His ^(AI)marvels in the field of Zoan,
⁴⁴ And ^(AJ)turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
⁴⁵ He sent swarms of ^(AK)flies among them that devoured them,
And ^(AL)frogs that destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the ^(AM)grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the ^(AN)locust.
⁴⁷ He ^[p]destroyed their vines with ^(AO)hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He also turned their ^(AP)cattle over to the hailstones,
And their herds to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹ He ^(AQ)sent His burning anger upon them,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
A band of ^[q]destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their souls from death,
But ^(AR)turned their lives over to the plague,
⁵¹ And ^(AS)struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
The ^(AT)first and best of their vigor in the tents of ^(AU)Ham.
⁵² But He ^(AV)led His own people out like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness ^(AW)like a flock;
⁵³ He led them ^(AX)safely, so that they did not fear;
But ^(AY)the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴ So ^(AZ)He brought them to His holy ^[r]land,
To this ^[s](BA)hill country ^(BB)which His right hand had gained.
⁵⁵ He also ^(BC)drove out the nations from them
And ^(BD)apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement,
And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
⁵⁶ Yet they ^[t](BE)tempted and ^(BF)rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,
⁵⁷ But turned back and ^(BG)acted treacherously like their fathers;
They ^(BH)turned aside like a treacherous bow.
⁵⁸ For they ^(BI)provoked Him with their ^(BJ)high places
And ^(BK)moved Him to jealousy with their ^(BL)carved images.
⁵⁹ When God heard them, He ^[u]was filled with ^(BM)wrath
And He utterly ^(BN)rejected Israel;
⁶⁰ So that He ^(BO)abandoned the ^(BP)dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent ^[v]which He had pitched among people,
⁶¹ And He gave up His ^(BQ)strength to captivity
And His glory ^(BR)into the hand of the enemy.
⁶² He also ^(BS)turned His people over to the sword,
And ^[w]was filled with wrath at His inheritance.
^63 (BT)Fire devoured ^[x]His young men,
And ^[y]His ^(BU)virgins had no wedding songs.
^64 [z]His ^(BV)priests fell by the sword,
And ^[aa]His ^(BW)widows could not weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord ^(BX)awoke as if from sleep,
Like a ^(BY)warrior ^[ab]overcome by wine.
⁶⁶ He ^[ac](BZ)drove His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting disgrace.
⁶⁷ He also ^(CA)rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount ^(CB)Zion, which He loved.
⁶⁹ And He ^(CC)built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has established forever.
⁷⁰ He also ^(CD)chose His servant David
And took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ From ^[ad](CE)the care of the ^[ae]ewes ^(CF)with nursing lambs He brought him
To ^(CG)shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel ^(CH)His inheritance.
⁷² So he shepherded them according to the ^(CI)integrity of his heart,
And guided them with his skillful hands.