²⁰ The wild animals^(A) honor me,
    the jackals^(B) and the owls,
because I provide water^(C) in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland,
to give drink to my people, my chosen,

¹⁷ “The poor and needy search for water,^(A)
    but there is none;
    their tongues are parched with thirst.^(B)
But I the Lord will answer^(C) them;
    I, the God of Israel, will not forsake^(D) them.

¹⁰ They will neither hunger nor thirst,^(A)
    nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.^(B)
He who has compassion^(C) on them will guide^(D) them
    and lead them beside springs^(E) of water.

²¹ They did not thirst^(A) when he led them through the deserts;
    he made water flow^(B) for them from the rock;
he split the rock
    and water gushed out.^(C)