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

²¹ Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of rage;
    a fire was kindled against Jacob,
    his anger mounted against Israel,^(I)
22 because they had no faith in God
    and did not trust his saving power.^(J)
23 Yet he commanded the skies above
    and opened the doors of heaven;^(K)
24 he rained down on them manna to eat
    and gave them the grain of heaven.^(L)
25 Mortals ate of the bread of angels;
    he sent them food in abundance.
²⁶ He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
    and by his power he led out the south wind;^(M)
27 he rained flesh upon them like dust,
    winged birds like the sand of the seas;^(N)
28 he let them fall within their camp,
    all around their dwellings.
²⁹ And they ate and were well filled,
    for he gave them what they craved.^(O)
30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
    while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹ the anger of God rose against them,
    and he killed the strongest of them
    and laid low the flower of Israel.^(P)

³² In spite of all this they still sinned;
    they did not believe in his wonders.^(Q)
33 So he made their days vanish like a breath
    and their years in terror.^(R)
34 When he killed them, they searched for him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.^(S)
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
    the Most High God their redeemer.^(T)
36 But they flattered him with their mouths;
    they lied to him with their tongues.^(U)
37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him;
    they were not true to his covenant.
³⁸ Yet he, being compassionate,
    forgave their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
often he restrained his anger
    and did not stir up all his wrath.^(V)
39 He remembered that they were but flesh,
    a wind that passes and does not come again.^(W)
40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and grieved him in the desert!^(X)
41 They tested God again and again
    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.^(Y)
42 They did not keep in mind his power
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
⁴³ when he displayed his signs in Egypt
    and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.^(Z)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them
    and frogs that destroyed them.^(AA)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamores with frost.^(AB)
48 He gave over their cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.^(AC)
49 He let loose on them his fierce anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of destroying angels.^(AD)
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 all the firstborn in Egypt,
    the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.^(AE)
52 Then he led out his people like sheep
    and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.^(AF)
53 He led them in safety so that they were not afraid,
    but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.^(AG)
54 And he brought them to his holy hill,
    to the mountain that his right hand had won.^(AH)
55 He drove out nations before them;
    he apportioned them for a possession
    and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.^(AI)

⁵⁶ Yet they tested the Most High God
    and rebelled against him.
    They did not observe his decrees^(AJ)
57 but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;
    they twisted like a treacherous bow.^(AK)
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places;
    they moved him to jealousy with their idols.^(AL)
59 When God heard, he was full of wrath,
    and he utterly rejected Israel.
⁶⁰ He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,
    the tent where he dwelt among mortals,^(AM)
61 and delivered his power to captivity,
    his glory to the hand of the foe.^(AN)
62 He gave his people to the sword
    and vented his wrath on his heritage.^(AO)
63 Fire devoured their young men,
    and their young women had no marriage song.^(AP)
64 Their priests fell by the sword,
    and their widows made no lamentation.^(AQ)
65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
    like a warrior shouting because of wine.^(AR)
66 He put his adversaries to rout;
    he put them to everlasting disgrace.^(AS)

⁶⁷ He rejected the tent of Joseph;
    he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,
    Mount Zion, which he loves.^(AT)
69 He built his sanctuary like the high heavens,
    like the earth, which he has founded forever.^(AU)
70 He chose his servant David
    and took him from the sheepfolds;^(AV)
71 from tending the nursing ewes he brought him
    to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
    of Israel, his inheritance.^(AW)
72 With upright heart he tended them
    and guided them with skillful hand.^(AX)

⁹ Awake, awake, put on strength,
    O arm of the Lord!
Awake, as in days of old,
    the generations of long ago!
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
    who pierced the dragon?^(A)