The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out,
And streams were overflowing;
Can He give bread also?
Will He provide meat for His people?”

And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open;

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

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

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever.

From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

We were a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and scorn to those being round about us.

Thou wilt not remember against us former iniquities: thy compassions shall quickly anticipate us, for we were greatly weak:

The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.

He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

Also Assur was joined with them: they were an arm to the sons of Lot Silence.

Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.

Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.

You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.

But of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her,”
And the Most High Himself will establish her.

Free among the dead, as they wounded lying down in the grave, whom thou no more didst remember them, and they were cut off by thy hand.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

How great were thy works, O Jehovah! thy thoughts were very deep.

So hath mine eye descried them who were lying in wait for me, - Of my wicked assailants, mine ears, shall hear.

Thy testimonies were very firm: holiness was becoming to thy house, O Jehovah, to length of days.

Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

Unless Jehovah were a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.

When my troubled thoughts were many {within me}, your consolations cheered my soul.

do not be stubborn like your ancestors were at Meribah, as on that day at Massah, in the wilderness,

Zion heard, and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.

Moses and Aaron were among His priests,
And Samuel was among those who called on His name;
They called upon the Lord and He answered them.

You answered them, O Lord our God;
You were a forgiving God to them,
And yet an avenger of their evil practices.

For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.

I watch, and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the housetop.

For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears

To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free, them who were appointed to death.

For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,

You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.

How thy works were multiplied. O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest them all: the earth was filled with thy possessions.

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;

And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.

Their hearts were turned to hate against his people, so that they made secret designs against them.

He sent darkness, and it was dark; for they were not obedient unto his word.

At his word their waters were turned to blood, and he sent death on all their fish.

He gave their vines and their fig-trees to destruction, and the trees of their land were broken down.

Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them.

Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; They remembered not the multitude of thy lovingkindnesses, But were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.

And he took them safely out of the hands of their haters, and kept them from the attacks of those who were against them.

They were seized with craving in the wilderness
and tested God in the desert.

And they were jealous of Moses in the camp, [and] of Aaron, the holy one of Yahweh.

And a fire was lighted among their tents; the sinners were burned up by the flames.

They were disgusted with the good land; they had no belief in his word;

And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.

Because they were rebellious against his spirit, And he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

And he gave them into the hands of the nations; and they were ruled by their haters.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

Hungry and thirsty,
They fainted.

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

because they were not obedient to the commandments of God, but lightly regarded the counsel of the most highest - he also brought down their hearts through heaviness.

So that he made their hearts weighted down with grief; they were falling, and had no helper.

He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

Fools, because of their rebellious way and their iniquities, were afflicted.

Their soul abhorred all manner of meat, and they were even hard at death's door.

He sent them an assuring word and healed them; he rescued them from the pits where they were trapped.

They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and {they were at their wits' end}.

He stilled the storm to a murmur,
and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Then they were glad because they grew silent, so he guided them to their desired harbor.

As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering.

My knees were weak from fasting, and my flesh failed from fatness.

My accusers will be covered with shame, and draped in humiliation as if it were a robe.

Thy people were willing in the day of thy strength, in the splendors of holiness from the womb of the dawn: to thee the dew of thy childhood.

The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs.

What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

You mountains, why were you jumping like goats, and you little hills like lambs?

The cords and sorrows of death encompassed me,
And the terrors of Sheol came upon me;
I found distress and sorrow.

They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns. In the name of Yahweh I opposed them indeed.

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!

Then I would not be ashamed, if I were focused on all your commands.

I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.