Give ear, O my people, to mine instruction, Bend your ear to the sayings of my mouth;

I will open, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity; -

We will not withhold them from their children, To a later generation, recounting the praises of Yahweh, Even his might and his wonders which he wrought;

When he set up a testimony in Jacob, And, a law, appointed in Israel, - Which he commanded our fathers, That they might make them known to their children;

How often they, Resisted him in the desert, Vexed him, in the waste:

And had rained on them manna to eat, And, the corn of the heavens, had given to them:

And made choice of David his servant, And took him from among the folds of the sheep:

So he did shepherd them, according to the singleness of his heart, And, with the discernment of his hands, used he to guide them.

He sent among them the heat of his anger, Wrath and indignation and distress, - A mission of messengers of misfortune:

Then awoke, as one that had slept, Adonay, As a warrior exulting with wine!

Yet, he, full of compassion, would put a propitiatory-covering over iniquity, and not destroy, - Yea, many a time, turned he back his anger, And would not stir up all his wrath.

But they tested and resisted God Most High, And, his testimonies, did not observe;

For all this, sinned they still, And believed not in his wonders;

Yea they again put GOD to the test, And, to the Holy One of Israel, caused they sorrow:

To the end, A later generation, might come m know, Children who should be born, Who should arise, and recount them to their children;

In presence of their fathers, wrought he, wondrously, - In the land of Egypt - the field of Zoan:

Though he had commanded the skies above, And, the doors of the heavens, had opened;

And remembered that, Elohim, was their rock, Yea, EL Most High, their Redeemer:

And led them, by a cloud, in the daytime, And all the night, by a light of fire;

If he slew of them, then they sought him, Yea they turned, and did earnestly seek GOD;

The sons of Ephraim - armed bowmen, Turned in the day of battle;

That they might set, in Elohim, their confidence, - And not forget the doings of El, But, his commandments, might observe;

So then he remembered, That, Flesh, they were, A Wind departing, that returneth not.

Which we have heard, and come to know, And, our fathers, have recounted to us;

When he set, in Egypt, his signs, And his wonders, in the plain of Zoan;

The food of the mighty, each one did eat, Nourishment, sent he them to the full;

Yea they spake against Elohim, - They said, Can GOD prepare a table in the desert?

God heard and was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

They put GOD to the proof in their heart, By asking food to their mind:

He used to cleave rocks in the desert, And let them drink as out of mighty deeps;

So he smote, Every first-born in Egypt, The beginning of their strength, in the tents of Ham;

And not become, like their fathers, a generation stubborn and rebellious, - A generation that fixed not their heart, Neither was their spirit, faithful with GOD.

But made choice of the tribe of Judah, The mountain of Zion, which he loved;

And built, like the heights, his sanctuary, Like the earth, he founded it to times age-abiding.

They kept not the covenant of God, And, in his law, refused to walk;

He killed, with hail, their vine, And their sycomores, with frost:

And he set forth, like sheep, his people, And guided them, like a flock in the desert;

But again, once more sinned they against him, Resisting the Most High in a land of drought:

So he gave up the habitation of Shiloh, The tent he had set up among Men;

Howbeit he rejected the tent of Joseph, And, the tribe of Ephraim, did not choose:

But, their heart, was not fixed with him, Nor were they trusty in his covenant:

So they spake him fair with their mouth, And, with their tongue, did promise him falsely;

He leveled a path for his anger, Withheld not, from death, their soul, But, their life - to the pestilence, he delivered:

And provoked him to anger with their high places, And, with their images, used to move him to jealousy.

He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through, And reared up the waters like a mound;

And forgat His doings, And his wonders which he had showed them:

Then brought he them within his own holy bounds, The mountain-range, which his right hand made his own:

So he drave out, before them, whole nations, And allotted them, by line, an inheritance, And caused to dwell, in their own homes, the tribes of Israel.

Therefore, Yahweh hearkened, and became wroth, - And, a fire, was kindled against Jacob, Moreover also, anger, mounted against Israel;

From after the sucking ewes, he brought him in, - To be shepherd to Jacob his people, And to Israel, his inheritance.

He sent among them, The gad-fly, and it devoured them, And the frog, and it despoiled them;

Yea he led them securely, and they dreaded not, And, their enemies, the sea did cover.

Yea he gave up, into captivity, his strength, And his beauty into the hand of an adversary;

Because, They believed not in God, Nor trusted in his salvation;

He let loose an east wind in the heavens, Then guided he, in his might, a south wind;

They remembered not his hand - The day, When he ransomed them from the adversary;

But drew back and dealt treacherously, like their fathers, They turned aside, like deceitful bowmen;

Lo! he hath smitten a rock, And waters, have gushed out, Yea, torrents, have rushed along, - Food also, can he give? Or provide flesh for his people?

When, the anger of God, mounted against them, And he slew of their vigorous youths, And, the choice young men of Israel, caused he to bow down in death.

And rained upon them flesh as the dust, And, like the sand of the seas, birds of wing;

When he gave to the corn-locust their produce, And their toil, to the swarming locust;

And he brought forth streams out of the cliff, And caused waters to flow down, like rivers.

His young men, were devoured by fire, And, his virgins, were not praised in song;

When he gave up, to hail-storms, their beasts, And their cattle, to pestilent fevers;

So he ended, in a breath, their days, And their years, in a sudden terror!

So he smote his adversaries in the rear, Reproach age-abiding, laid he upon them.

When he turned, into blood, their Nile-streams, And, their own rivers, could they not drink;

So they did eat and were abundantly filled, When, what they longed for, he had brought them: -

They had not turned away from what they had longed for, Yet was their food in their mouth,

His priests, by the sword, did fall, And, his widows, were not able to bewail.

And delivered up, to the sword, his people, And, with his own inheritance, was he wroth;

And let them fall in the midst of their camp, - Round about their habitations.