¹⁵ When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.

My Soul Thirsts for You

A Psalm of David, ^(A)when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

⁹ So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and ^(A)the king of Edom. And when they had made a circuitous march of seven days, there was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

Bitter Water Made Sweet

²² Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of ^(A)Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. ²³ When they came to ^(B)Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.^{[a] 24} And the people ^(C)grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” ²⁵ And he ^(D)cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log,^[b] and he ^(E)threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.

There the Lord^[c] made for them a statute and a rule, and there he ^(F)tested them,

^12 (A)The ironsmith takes a cutting tool and works it over the coals. He fashions it with hammers and works it with his strong arm. He becomes hungry, and his strength fails; he drinks no water and is faint.

Water from the Rock

17 ^(A)All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. ^2 (B)Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you ^(C)test the Lord?” ³ But the people thirsted there for water, and ^(D)the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

¹⁴ So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of ^(A)Beersheba.