¹⁵ who ^(A)led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, ^(B)with its fiery serpents and scorpions ^(C)and thirsty ground where there was no water, ^(D)who brought you water out of the flinty rock,

⁷ For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. ^(A)He knows your going through this great wilderness. ^(B)These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’

⁹ But now that you have come to know God, or rather ^(A)to be known by God, ^(B)how can you turn back again to ^(C)the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

My Soul Thirsts for You

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

²⁵ God ^(A)saw the people of Israel—and God ^(B)knew.