^13 (B)They soon forgot His works;
They did not wait for His counsel,
^14 (C)But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness,
And tested God in the desert.
^15 (D)And He gave them their request,
But ^(E)sent leanness into their soul.

¹⁶ When ^(F)they envied Moses in the camp,
And Aaron the saint of the Lord,
^17 (G)The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan,
And covered the faction of Abiram.
^18 (H)A fire was kindled in their company;
The flame burned up the wicked.

^19 (I)They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped the molded image.
²⁰ Thus ^(J)they changed their glory
Into the image of an ox that eats grass.
²¹ They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
²² Wondrous works in the land of Ham,
Awesome things by the Red Sea.
^23 (K)Therefore He said that He would destroy them,
Had not Moses His chosen one ^(L)stood before Him in the breach,
To turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

²⁴ Then they despised ^(M)the pleasant land;
They ^(N)did not believe His word,
^25 (O)But complained in their tents,
And did not heed the voice of the Lord.
^26 (P)Therefore He raised His hand in an oath against them,
^(Q)To ^[a]overthrow them in the wilderness,
^27 (R)To ^[b]overthrow their descendants among the ^[c]nations,
And to scatter them in the lands.

^28 (S)They joined themselves also to Baal of Peor,
And ate sacrifices ^[d]made to the dead.
²⁹ Thus they provoked Him to anger with their deeds,
And the plague broke out among them.
^30 (T)Then Phinehas stood up and intervened,
And the plague was stopped.
³¹ And that was accounted to him ^(U)for righteousness
To all generations forevermore.

^32 (V)They angered Him also at the waters of ^[e]strife,
^(W)So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;
^33 (X)Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

^34 (Y)They did not destroy the peoples,
^(Z)Concerning whom the Lord had commanded them,
^35 (AA)But they mingled with the Gentiles
And learned their works;
^36 (AB)They served their idols,
^(AC)Which became a snare to them.
^37 (AD)They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to ^(AE)demons,
³⁸ And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And ^(AF)the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹ Thus they ^[f]were ^(AG)defiled by their own works,
And ^(AH)played^[g] the harlot by their own deeds.

⁴⁰ Therefore ^(AI)the wrath of the Lord was kindled against His people,
So that He abhorred ^(AJ)His own inheritance.
⁴¹ And ^(AK)He gave them into the hand of the Gentiles,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
⁴² Their enemies also oppressed them,
And they were brought into subjection under their hand.
^43 (AL)Many times He delivered them;
But they rebelled in their counsel,
And were brought low for their iniquity.

⁴⁴ Nevertheless He regarded their affliction,
When ^(AM)He heard their cry;
^45 (AN)And for their sake He remembered His covenant,
And ^(AO)relented ^(AP)according to the multitude of His mercies.
^46 (AQ)He also made them to be pitied
By all those who carried them away captive.

^47 (AR)Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the Gentiles,
To give thanks to Your holy name,
To triumph in Your praise.

^48 (AS)Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
And let all the people say, “Amen!”

^[h]Praise the Lord!

¹⁷ But they sinned even more against Him
By ^(D)rebelling against the Most High in the wilderness.
¹⁸ And ^(E)they tested God in their heart
By asking for the food of their fancy.
^19 (F)Yes, they spoke against God:
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
^20 (G)Behold, He struck the rock,
So that the waters gushed out,
And the streams overflowed.
Can He give bread also?
Can He provide meat for His people?”

²¹ Therefore the Lord heard this and ^(H)was furious;
So a fire was kindled against Jacob,
And anger also came up against Israel,
²² Because they ^(I)did not believe in God,
And did not trust in His salvation.
²³ Yet He had commanded the clouds above,
^(J)And opened the doors of heaven,
^24 (K)Had rained down manna on them to eat,
And given them of the ^[a]bread of ^(L)heaven.
²⁵ Men ate angels’ food;
He sent them food to ^[b]the full.

^26 (M)He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by His power He brought in the south wind.
²⁷ He also rained meat on them like the dust,
Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;
²⁸ And He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
All around their dwellings.
^29 (N)So they ate and were well filled,
For He gave them their own desire.
³⁰ They were not ^[c]deprived of their craving;
But ^(O)while their food was still in their mouths,
³¹ The wrath of God came against them,
And slew the stoutest of them,
And struck down the choice men of Israel.

³² In spite of this ^(P)they still sinned,
And ^(Q)did not believe in His wondrous works.
^33 (R)Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in fear.

^34 (S)When He slew them, then they sought Him;
And they returned and sought earnestly for God.
³⁵ Then they remembered that ^(T)God was their rock,
And the Most High God ^(U)their Redeemer.
³⁶ Nevertheless they ^(V)flattered Him with their mouth,
And they lied to Him with their tongue;
³⁷ For their heart was not steadfast with Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
^38 (W)But He, being full of ^(X)compassion, forgave their iniquity,
And did not destroy them.
Yes, many a time ^(Y)He turned His anger away,
And ^(Z)did not stir up all His wrath;
³⁹ For ^(AA)He remembered ^(AB)that they were but flesh,
^(AC)A breath that passes away and does not come again.

⁴⁰ How often they ^(AD)provoked^[d] Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!
⁴¹ Yes, ^(AE)again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They did not remember His ^[e]power:
The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
⁴³ When He worked His signs in Egypt,
And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
^44 (AF)Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.
^45 (AG)He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And ^(AH)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the ^(AI)locust.
^47 (AJ)He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He also gave up their ^(AK)cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery ^[f]lightning.
⁴⁹ He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
By sending angels of destruction among them.
⁵⁰ He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave ^[g]their life over to the plague,
⁵¹ And destroyed all the ^(AL)firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.
⁵² But He ^(AM)made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
⁵³ And He ^(AN)led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea ^(AO)overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ And He brought them to His ^(AP)holy border,
This mountain ^(AQ)which His right hand had acquired.
^55 (AR)He also drove out the nations before them,
^(AS)Allotted them an inheritance by ^[h]survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

^56 (AT)Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God,
And did not keep His testimonies,
⁵⁷ But ^(AU)turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were turned aside ^(AV)like a deceitful bow.
^58 (AW)For they provoked Him to anger with their ^(AX)high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
⁵⁹ When God heard this, He was furious,
And greatly abhorred Israel,
^60 (AY)So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The tent He had placed among men,
^61 (AZ)And delivered His strength into captivity,
And His glory into the enemy’s hand.
^62 (BA)He also gave His people over to the sword,
And was furious with His inheritance.
⁶³ The fire consumed their young men,
And ^(BB)their maidens were not given in marriage.
^64 (BC)Their priests fell by the sword,
And ^(BD)their widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
^(BE)Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
⁶⁶ And ^(BF)He beat back His enemies;
He put them to a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷ Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion ^(BG)which He loved.
⁶⁹ And He built His ^(BH)sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has established forever.
^70 (BI)He also chose David His servant,
And took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ From following ^(BJ)the ewes that had young He brought him,
^(BK)To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.
⁷² So he shepherded them according to the ^(BL)integrity of his heart,
And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.