⁴ For they have no pangs until death;
    their bodies are fat and sleek.
⁵ They are not in trouble as others are;
    they are not ^(G)stricken like the rest of mankind.
⁶ Therefore pride is ^(H)their necklace;
    violence covers them as ^(I)a garment.
⁷ Their ^(J)eyes swell out through fatness;
    their hearts overflow with follies.
⁸ They scoff and ^(K)speak with malice;
    loftily they threaten oppression.
⁹ They set their mouths against the heavens,
    and their tongue struts through the earth.
¹⁰ Therefore his people turn back to them,
    and find ^(L)no fault in them.^[a]
11 And they say, ^(M)“How can God know?
    Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
¹² Behold, these are the wicked;
    always at ease, they ^(N)increase in riches.
¹³ All in vain have I ^(O)kept my heart clean
    and ^(P)washed my hands in innocence.
¹⁴ For all the day long I have been ^(Q)stricken
    and ^(R)rebuked ^(S)every morning.
¹⁵ If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
    I would have betrayed ^(T)the generation of your children.

¹⁶ But when I thought how to understand this,
    it seemed to me ^(U)a wearisome task,
¹⁷ until I went into ^(V)the sanctuary of God;
    then I discerned their ^(W)end.

¹⁸ Truly you set them in ^(X)slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.
¹⁹ How they are destroyed ^(Y)in a moment,
    swept away utterly by ^(Z)terrors!
²⁰ Like ^(AA)a dream when one awakes,
    O Lord, when ^(AB)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
²¹ When my soul was embittered,
    when I was pricked in heart,
²² I was ^(AC)brutish and ignorant;
    I was like ^(AD)a beast toward you.

²³ Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
    you ^(AE)hold my right hand.
²⁴ You ^(AF)guide me with your counsel,
    and afterward you will ^(AG)receive me to glory.
^25 (AH)Whom have I in heaven but you?
    And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
^26 (AI)My flesh and my heart may fail,
    but God is ^(AJ)the strength^[b] of my heart and my ^(AK)portion ^(AL)forever.

²⁷ For behold, those who are ^(AM)far from you shall perish;
    you put an end to everyone who is ^(AN)unfaithful to you.
²⁸ But for me it is good to ^(AO)be near God;
    I have made the Lord God my ^(AP)refuge,
    that I may ^(AQ)tell of all your works.

⁴ You hold my eyelids open;
    I am so ^(I)troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵ I consider ^(J)the days of old,
    the years long ago.
⁶ I said,^[a] “Let me remember my ^(K)song in the night;
    let me ^(L)meditate in my heart.”
    Then my spirit made a diligent search:
⁷ “Will the Lord ^(M)spurn forever,
    and never again ^(N)be favorable?
⁸ Has his steadfast love forever ceased?
    Are his ^(O)promises at an end for all time?
^9 (P)Has God forgotten to be gracious?
    ^(Q)Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah

¹⁰ Then I said, “I will appeal to this,
    to the years of the ^(R)right hand of the Most High.”^[b]

¹¹ I will remember the deeds of the Lord;
    yes, I will ^(S)remember your wonders of old.
¹² I will ponder all your ^(T)work,
    and meditate on your ^(U)mighty deeds.
¹³ Your way, O God, is ^(V)holy.
    ^(W)What god is great like our God?
¹⁴ You are the God who ^(X)works wonders;
    you have ^(Y)made known your might among the peoples.
¹⁵ You ^(Z)with your arm redeemed your people,
    the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹⁶ When ^(AA)the waters saw you, O God,
    when the waters saw you, they were afraid;
    indeed, the deep trembled.
¹⁷ The clouds poured out water;
    the skies ^(AB)gave forth thunder;
    your ^(AC)arrows flashed on every side.
^18 (AD)The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;
    ^(AE)your lightnings lighted up the world;
    the earth ^(AF)trembled and shook.
¹⁹ Your ^(AG)way was through the sea,
    your path through the great waters;
    yet your footprints ^(AH)were unseen.^[c]
20 You ^(AI)led your people like a flock
    by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

⁵ He established ^(AR)a testimony in ^(AS)Jacob
    and appointed a law in ^(AT)Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
    to teach to their children,
⁶ that ^(AU)the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
⁷     so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget ^(AV)the works of God,
    but ^(AW)keep his commandments;
⁸ and that they should not be ^(AX)like their fathers,
    ^(AY)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation ^(AZ)whose heart was not steadfast,
    whose spirit was not faithful to God.

⁹ The Ephraimites, armed with^[e] the bow,
    ^(BA)turned back on the day of battle.
¹⁰ They ^(BB)did not keep God's covenant,
    but refused to walk according to his law.
¹¹ They ^(BC)forgot his works
    and ^(BD)the wonders that he had shown them.
¹² In the sight of their fathers ^(BE)he performed wonders
    in the land of Egypt, in ^(BF)the fields of Zoan.
¹³ He ^(BG)divided the sea and let them pass through it,
    and made the waters ^(BH)stand like a heap.
^14 (BI)In the daytime he led them with a cloud,
    and all the night with a fiery light.
¹⁵ He ^(BJ)split rocks in the wilderness
    and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
¹⁶ He made streams come out of ^(BK)the rock
    and caused waters to flow down like rivers.

¹⁷ Yet they sinned still more against him,
    ^(BL)rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
¹⁸ They ^(BM)tested God in their heart
    by demanding the food they craved.
¹⁹ They spoke against God, saying,
    ^(BN)“Can God ^(BO)spread a table in the wilderness?
^20 (BP)He struck the rock so that water gushed out
    and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
    or provide meat for his people?”

²¹ Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
    ^(BQ)a fire was kindled against Jacob;
    his anger rose against Israel,
²² because they ^(BR)did not believe in God
    and did not trust his saving power.
²³ Yet he commanded the skies above
    and ^(BS)opened the doors of heaven,
²⁴ and he ^(BT)rained down on them manna to eat
    and gave them ^(BU)the grain of heaven.
²⁵ Man ate of the bread of ^(BV)the angels;
    he sent them food ^(BW)in abundance.
²⁶ He ^(BX)caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
    and by his power he led out the south wind;
²⁷ he rained meat on them like ^(BY)dust,
    winged birds like ^(BZ)the sand of the seas;
²⁸ he ^(CA)let them fall in the midst of their camp,
    all around their dwellings.
²⁹ And they ^(CB)ate and were well filled,
    for he gave them what they ^(CC)craved.
³⁰ But before they had satisfied their craving,
    ^(CD)while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹ the anger of God rose against them,
    and he killed ^(CE)the strongest of them
    and laid low ^(CF)the young men of Israel.

³² In spite of all this, they ^(CG)still sinned;
    ^(CH)despite his wonders, they did not believe.
³³ So he made ^(CI)their days ^(CJ)vanish like^[f] a breath,^[g]
    and their years in terror.
³⁴ When he killed them, they ^(CK)sought him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their ^(CL)rock,
    the Most High God their ^(CM)redeemer.
³⁶ But they ^(CN)flattered him with their mouths;
    they ^(CO)lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷ Their ^(CP)heart was not ^(CQ)steadfast toward him;
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸ Yet he, being ^(CR)compassionate,
    ^(CS)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹ He ^(CT)remembered that they were but ^(CU)flesh,
    ^(CV)a wind that passes and comes not again.
⁴⁰ How often they ^(CW)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and ^(CX)grieved him in ^(CY)the desert!
⁴¹ They ^(CZ)tested God again and again
    and provoked ^(DA)the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(DB)did not remember his power^[h]
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
^43 (DC)when he performed his ^(DD)signs in Egypt
    and his ^(DE)marvels in ^(DF)the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He ^(DG)turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of ^(DH)flies, which devoured them,
    and ^(DI)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to ^(DJ)the destroying locust
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with ^(DK)hail
    and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their ^(DL)cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.
⁴⁹ He let loose on them his burning anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of ^(DM)destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death,
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down every ^(DN)firstborn in Egypt,
    the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^(DO)Ham.
⁵² Then he led out his people ^(DP)like sheep
    and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^53 (DQ)He led them in safety, so that they ^(DR)were not afraid,
    but ^(DS)the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ And he brought them to his ^(DT)holy land,
    ^(DU)to the mountain which his right hand had ^(DV)won.
⁵⁵ He ^(DW)drove out nations before them;
    he ^(DX)apportioned them for a possession
    and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶ Yet they ^(DY)tested and ^(DZ)rebelled against the Most High God
    and did not keep his testimonies,
⁵⁷ but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
    they twisted like ^(EA)a deceitful bow.
⁵⁸ For they ^(EB)provoked him to anger with their ^(EC)high places;
    they ^(ED)moved him to jealousy with their ^(EE)idols.
⁵⁹ When God heard, he was full of ^(EF)wrath,
    and he utterly rejected Israel.
⁶⁰ He ^(EG)forsook his dwelling at ^(EH)Shiloh,
    the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
⁶¹ and delivered his ^(EI)power to captivity,
    his ^(EJ)glory to the hand of the foe.
⁶² He ^(EK)gave his people over to the sword
    and ^(EL)vented his wrath on his heritage.
^63 (EM)Fire devoured their young men,
    and their young women had no ^(EN)marriage song.
⁶⁴ Their ^(EO)priests fell by the sword,
    and their ^(EP)widows made no lamentation.
⁶⁵ Then the Lord ^(EQ)awoke as from sleep,
    like a strong man shouting because of wine.
⁶⁶ And he ^(ER)put his adversaries to rout;
    he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷ He rejected the tent of ^(ES)Joseph;
    he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,
    Mount Zion, which he ^(ET)loves.
⁶⁹ He ^(EU)built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
    like the earth, which he has founded forever.
⁷⁰ He ^(EV)chose David his servant
    and took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ from ^(EW)following the nursing ewes he brought him
    to ^(EX)shepherd Jacob his people,
    Israel his ^(EY)inheritance.
⁷² With ^(EZ)upright heart he shepherded them
    and ^(FA)guided them with his skillful hand.