Psalm 78:14–40

¹⁴And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire. ¹⁵He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly; ¹⁶And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. ¹⁷Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert; ¹⁸And they tempted •God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust; ¹⁹And they spoke against God: they said, Is •God able to prepare a table in the wilderness? ²⁰Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people? ²¹Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel: ²²Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation; ²³Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens, ²⁴And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens. ²⁵Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full. ²⁶He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind; ²⁷And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas, ²⁸And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations: ²⁹And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them. ³⁰They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths, ³¹When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. ³²For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works; ³³And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. ³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after •God; ³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock, and •God, the Most High, their redeemer. ³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue; ³⁷For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. ³⁸But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury: ³⁹And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!