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He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

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He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

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Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

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Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?”

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Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

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because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.

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Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

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He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

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Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

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He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

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He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

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He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.

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So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

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They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

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For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

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Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

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When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

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They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

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But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

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For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

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But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

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He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

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They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

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They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

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how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

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he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

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He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

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He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

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He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

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He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

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He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

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He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

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and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

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But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

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He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

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Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies;

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but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

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When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

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So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

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and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.

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He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

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Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

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Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

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Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

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He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

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Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

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He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

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He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

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from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

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So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

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A Psalm by Asaph.

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God, the nations have come into your inheritance. They have defiled your holy temple. They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.

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They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth.

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Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

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We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

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How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

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Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you; on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

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For they have devoured Jacob, and destroyed his homeland.

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Don’t hold the iniquities of our forefathers against us. Let your tender mercies speedily meet us, for we are in desperate need.

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Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

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Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.

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Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

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Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

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So we, your people and sheep of your pasture, will give you thanks forever. We will praise you forever, to all generations.

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For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm by Asaph.

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Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, you who lead Joseph like a flock, you who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.

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Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up your might! Come to save us!

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Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

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Yahweh God of Armies, How long will you be angry against the prayer of your people?

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You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

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You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

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Turn us again, God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

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You brought a vine out of Egypt. You drove out the nations, and planted it.

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You cleared the ground for it. It took deep root, and filled the land.

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The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God’s cedars.

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It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

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Why have you broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?

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The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.

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Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

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the stock which your right hand planted, the branch that you made strong for yourself.

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It’s burned with fire. It’s cut down. They perish at your rebuke.

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Let your hand be on the man of your right hand, on the son of man whom you made strong for yourself.

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So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

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Turn us again, Yahweh God of Armies. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

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For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. By Asaph.

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Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

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Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

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Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.

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For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

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He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.

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“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

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You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.” Selah.