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⁹ The Ephraimite archers turned back
on the day of battle.^(C1)10 They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by his law.^(C1)11 They forgot what he had done,
the wondrous works he had shown them.^(C1)12 He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan.^(C1)13 He split the sea and brought them across;
the water stood firm like a wall.^(C1)14 He led them with a cloud by day
and with a fiery light throughout the night.^(C1)15 He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.^(C1)16 He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.^(C1)

¹⁷ But they continued to sin against him,
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.^(C1)18 They deliberately^(F1) tested God,
demanding the food they craved.^(C1)19 They spoke against God, saying,
“Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?²⁰ Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;
torrents overflowed.^(C1)
But can he also provide bread
or furnish meat for his people?” ^(C2)21 Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious;
then fire broke out against Jacob,
and anger flared up against Israel^(C1)22 because they did not believe God
or rely on his salvation.^(C1)23 He gave a command to the clouds above
and opened the doors of heaven.^(C1)24 He rained manna for them to eat;
he gave them grain from heaven.^(C1)25 People^(F1) ate the bread of angels.^(F2)
He sent them an abundant supply of food.^(C1)26 He made the east wind blow in the skies
and drove the south wind by his might.^(C1)27 He rained meat on them like dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.²⁸ He made them fall in the camp,
all around the tents.^(C1)29 The people ate and were completely satisfied,
for he gave them what they craved.^(C1)30 Before they had turned from what they craved,
while the food was still in their mouths,³¹ God’s anger flared up against them,
and he killed some of their best men.
He struck down Israel’s fit young men.^(C1)

³² Despite all this, they kept sinning
and did not believe his wondrous works.^(C1)33 He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.^(C1)34 When he killed some of them,
the rest began to seek him;
they repented and searched for God.^(C1)35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their Redeemer.^(C1)36 But they deceived him with their mouths,
they lied to him with their tongues,^(C1)37 their hearts were insincere toward him,
and they were unfaithful to his covenant.^(C1)38 Yet he was compassionate;
he atoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them.
He often turned his anger aside
and did not unleash^(F1) all his wrath.^(C1)39 He remembered that they were only flesh,
a wind that passes and does not return.^(C1)

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him
in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert.⁴¹ They constantly tested God^(C1)
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.^(C2)42 They did not remember his power shown
on the day he redeemed them from the foe,^(C1)43 when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt
and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.^(C1)44 He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.^(C1)45 He sent among them swarms of flies,^(C1)
which fed on them,
and frogs, which devastated them.^(C2)46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.^(C1)47 He killed their vines with hail
and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.⁴⁸ He handed over their livestock to hail
and their cattle to lightning bolts.^(C1)49 He sent his burning anger against them:
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.^(F1)(C1)50 He cleared a path for his anger.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.^(C1)51 He struck all the firstborn^(C1) in Egypt,
the first progeny of the tents of Ham.^(C2)52 He led his people out like sheep
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.^(C1)53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.^(C1)54 He brought them to his holy territory,
to the mountain his right hand acquired.^(C1)55 He drove out nations before them.^(C1)
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.^(C2)

⁵⁶ But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep his decrees.^(C1)57 They treacherously turned away like their fathers;
they became warped like a faulty bow.^(C1)58 They enraged him with their high places
and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.^(C1)59 God heard and became furious;
he completely rejected Israel.^(C1)60 He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where he resided among mankind.^(C1)61 He gave up his strength to captivity
and his splendor to the hand of a foe.^(C1)62 He surrendered his people to the sword
because he was enraged with his heritage.^(C1)63 Fire consumed his chosen young men,
and his young women had no wedding songs.^(F1)(C1)64 His priests fell by the sword,
and the widows could not lament.^(C1)

⁶⁵ The Lord awoke as if from sleep,
like a warrior from the effects of wine.^(C1)66 He beat back his foes;
he gave them lasting disgrace.^(C1)67 He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.⁶⁸ He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.^(C1)69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.^(C1)70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;^(C1)71 he brought him from tending ewes
to be shepherd over his people Jacob—
over Israel, his inheritance.^(C1)72 He shepherded them with a pure heart
and guided them with his skillful hands.^(C1)