⁶ He has shown his people the power of his works,^(A)
    giving them the lands of other nations.^(B)

⁸ You transplanted a vine^(A) from Egypt;
    you drove out^(B) the nations and planted^(C) it.

¹² He did miracles^(A) in the sight of their ancestors
    in the land of Egypt,^(B) in the region of Zoan.^(C)
13 He divided the sea^(D) and led them through;
    he made the water stand up like a wall.^(E)
14 He guided them with the cloud by day
    and with light from the fire all night.^(F)
15 He split the rocks^(G) in the wilderness
    and gave them water as abundant as the seas;
¹⁶ he brought streams out of a rocky crag
    and made water flow down like rivers.

¹⁷ But they continued to sin^(H) against him,
    rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.
¹⁸ They willfully put God to the test^(I)
    by demanding the food they craved.^(J)
19 They spoke against God;^(K)
    they said, “Can God really
    spread a table in the wilderness?
²⁰ True, he struck the rock,
    and water gushed out,^(L)
    streams flowed abundantly,
but can he also give us bread?
    Can he supply meat^(M) for his people?”
²¹ When the Lord heard them, he was furious;
    his fire broke out^(N) against Jacob,
    and his wrath rose against Israel,
²² for they did not believe in God
    or trust^(O) in his deliverance.
²³ Yet he gave a command to the skies above
    and opened the doors of the heavens;^(P)
24 he rained down manna^(Q) for the people to eat,
    he gave them the grain of heaven.
²⁵ Human beings ate the bread of angels;
    he sent them all the food they could eat.
²⁶ He let loose the east wind^(R) from the heavens
    and by his power made the south wind blow.
²⁷ He rained meat down on them like dust,
    birds^(S) like sand on the seashore.
²⁸ He made them come down inside their camp,
    all around their tents.
²⁹ They ate till they were gorged—^(T)
    he had given them what they craved.
³⁰ But before they turned from what they craved,
    even while the food was still in their mouths,^(U)
31 God’s anger rose against them;
    he put to death the sturdiest^(V) among them,
    cutting down the young men of Israel.

³² In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;^(W)
    in spite of his wonders,^(X) they did not believe.^(Y)
33 So he ended their days in futility^(Z)
    and their years in terror.
³⁴ Whenever God slew them, they would seek^(AA) him;
    they eagerly turned to him again.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their Rock,^(AB)
    that God Most High was their Redeemer.^(AC)
36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths,^(AD)
    lying to him with their tongues;
³⁷ their hearts were not loyal^(AE) to him,
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸ Yet he was merciful;^(AF)
    he forgave^(AG) their iniquities^(AH)
    and did not destroy them.
Time after time he restrained his anger^(AI)
    and did not stir up his full wrath.
³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh,^(AJ)
    a passing breeze^(AK) that does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled^(AL) against him in the wilderness^(AM)
    and grieved him^(AN) in the wasteland!
⁴¹ Again and again they put God to the test;^(AO)
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.^(AP)
42 They did not remember^(AQ) his power—
    the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,^(AR)
43 the day he displayed his signs^(AS) in Egypt,
    his wonders^(AT) in the region of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He turned their river into blood;^(AU)
    they could not drink from their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies^(AV) that devoured them,
    and frogs^(AW) that devastated them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to the grasshopper,^(AX)
    their produce to the locust.^(AY)
47 He destroyed their vines with hail^(AZ)
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
⁴⁸ He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock^(BA) to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹ He unleashed against them his hot anger,^(BB)
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.^(BC)
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,^(BD)
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^(BE)
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;^(BF)
    he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
⁵³ He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
    but the sea engulfed^(BG) their enemies.^(BH)
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to the hill country his right hand^(BI) had taken.
⁵⁵ He drove out nations^(BJ) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;^(BK)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

⁵⁶ But they put God to the test
    and rebelled against the Most High;
    they did not keep his statutes.
⁵⁷ Like their ancestors^(BL) they were disloyal and faithless,
    as unreliable as a faulty bow.^(BM)
58 They angered him^(BN) with their high places;^(BO)
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.^(BP)
59 When God heard^(BQ) them, he was furious;^(BR)
    he rejected Israel^(BS) completely.
⁶⁰ He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,^(BT)
    the tent he had set up among humans.^(BU)
61 He sent the ark of his might^(BV) into captivity,^(BW)
    his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
⁶² He gave his people over to the sword;^(BX)
    he was furious with his inheritance.^(BY)
63 Fire consumed^(BZ) their young men,
    and their young women had no wedding songs;^(CA)
64 their priests were put to the sword,^(CB)
    and their widows could not weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,^(CC)
    as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
⁶⁶ He beat back his enemies;
    he put them to everlasting shame.^(CD)
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
    he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;^(CE)
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,^(CF)
    Mount Zion,^(CG) which he loved.
⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary^(CH) like the heights,
    like the earth that he established forever.
⁷⁰ He chose David^(CI) his servant
    and took him from the sheep pens;
⁷¹ from tending the sheep^(CJ) he brought him
    to be the shepherd^(CK) of his people Jacob,
    of Israel his inheritance.
⁷² And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;^(CL)
    with skillful hands he led them.