12 He worked wonders in the sight of their ancestors

in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan.s

13 He split the sea and brought them across;

the water stood firm like a wall.t

14 He led them with a cloud by day

and with a fiery light throughout the night.u

15 He split rocks in the wilderness

and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.v

16 He brought streams out of the stone

and made water flow down like rivers.w

17 But they continued to sin against him,

rebelling in the desert against the Most High.x

18 They deliberatelyA tested God,

demanding the food they craved.y

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.z

But can he also provide bread

or furnish meat for his people?”aa

21 Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious;

then fire broke out against Jacob,

and anger flared up against Israelab

22 because they did not believe God

or rely on his salvation.ac

23 He gave a command to the clouds above

and opened the doors of heaven.ad

24 He rained manna for them to eat;

he gave them grain from heaven.ae

25 PeopleB ate the bread of angels.C

He sent them an abundant supply of food.af

26 He made the east wind blow in the skies

and drove the south wind by his might.ag

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.a

29 The people ate and were completely satisfied,

for he gave them what they craved.b

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.c

32 Despite all this, they kept sinning

and did not believe his wondrous works.d

33 He made their days end in futility,

their years in sudden disaster.e

34 When he killed some of them,

the rest began to seek him;

they repented and searched for God.f

35 They remembered that God was their rock,

the Most High God, their Redeemer.g

36 But they deceived him with their mouths,

they lied to him with their tongues,h

37 their hearts were insincere toward him,

and they were unfaithful to his covenant.i

38 Yet he was compassionate;

he atoned for their iniquity

and did not destroy them.

He often turned his anger aside

and did not unleashA all his wrath.j

39 He remembered that they were only flesh,

a wind that passes and does not return.k

40 How often they rebelled against him

in the wilderness

and grieved him in the desert.

41 They constantly tested Godl

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.m

42 They did not remember his power shown

on the day he redeemed them from the foe,n

43 when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt

and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.o

44 He turned their rivers into blood,

and they could not drink from their streams.p

45 He sent among them swarms of flies,q

which fed on them,

and frogs, which devastated them.r

46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.s

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.t

49 He sent his burning anger against them:

fury, indignation, and calamity—

a band of deadly messengers.B,u

50 He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.v

51 He struck all the firstbornw in Egypt,

the first progeny of the tents of Ham.x

52 He led his people out like sheep

and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.y

53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid;

but the sea covered their enemies.z

54 He brought them to his holy territory,

to the mountain his right hand acquired.aa

55 He drove out nations before them.ab

He apportioned their inheritance by lot

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.ac