⁴¹ And Moses said, Why this, that you^◦ transgress^◦ the mouth of Jehovah? But it^◦ shall not prosper.

¹ A maskil^* of^◦ Asaph.
Give·​·ear·​·, O my people, ·to my law;
incline your ears to the sayings of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth in a prophetic·​·enunciation;
I will utter enigmas from ancient times,

³ which we have heard and known,
and our fathers have recounted^◦ to us.

⁴ We will not conceal^◦ them from their sons, recounting^◦ to a later generation the praises of Jehovah,
and His strength, and His wonders that He has done.

⁵ And He raised·​·up a testimony in Jacob,
and set a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers,
to make them known to their sons,

⁶ in·​·order·​·that they might know,
a later generation, the sons who should be·​·born,
that they might arise
and recount^◦ to their sons,

⁷ and set their credence in God, and not forget the acts of God^◦,
but might observe His commandments;

⁸ and it will not be as with their fathers,
a defiant and rebellious generation,
a generation who prepared not its heart;
and whose spirit was· not ·faithful with^◦ God^◦.

⁹ The sons of Ephraim being armed, the shooters^◦ of the bow,
turned themselves away^* in the day of combat.

¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God,
and refused to walk^◦ in His law;

¹¹ and they forgot His acts,
and His wonders that He had showed them.

¹² In·​·the·​·presence·​·of their fathers He did wonders,
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

¹³ He split·​·open the sea, and caused them to cross·​·through;
and He made the waters to stand·​·up as^▵ a heap^◦.

¹⁴ And He led them with a cloud by·​·day,
and all the night with a light of fire.

¹⁵ He split·​·open rocks in the wilderness,
and gave· them ·drink^◦, as out of the great^◦ abysses.

¹⁶ And He brought·​·forth streams from the rock^◦,
and caused waters to go·​·down as rivers.

¹⁷ But they added still to sin against^▵ Him,
to rebel against the Most·​·High in the arid place.

¹⁸ And they tempted God^◦ in their heart,
by asking food for their soul.

¹⁹ And they spoke against God;
they said, Is· God^◦ ·able to arrange a table in the wilderness?

²⁰ Behold, He smote the rock, and waters flowed and brooks overflowed.
Is· He also ·able to give bread? Can He prepare meat^◦ for His people?

²¹ Therefore Jehovah heard, and was·​·wroth; and a fire was kindled^◦ against^◦ Jacob,
and also anger went·​·up against^◦ Israel;

²² for they believed not in God,
and trusted not in His salvation.

²³ And He commanded the ethers from above,
and the doors of the heavens he opened.

²⁴ And He rained down upon them manna to eat,
and grain of the heavens He gave to them.

²⁵ A man^◦ did eat the bread of the powerful·​·ones;
He sent to them^◦ provisions to their satisfaction.

²⁶ He caused the east·​·wind to journey in the heavens;
and by His strength He drove the south·​·wind.

²⁷ And He rained meat^◦ upon them as the dust,
and winged fowl as the sand of the seas;

²⁸ and He let it fall in the midst^◦ of their camp,
all around their habitations.

²⁹ And they ate, and were very satisfied;
and that for which they lusted, He brought to them^◦.

³⁰ They were not estranged from their lusting,
their food was still in their mouth,

³¹ and the anger of God went·​·up among^◦ them,
and killed among^◦ their fat^* ones, and made the young·​·men of Israel stoop·​·down.

³² With all this still they sinned,
and believed not in His wonders.

³³ And He consumed·​·all their days in vanity^◦,
and their years in vexation.

³⁴ When^▫ He killed them, then they inquired·​·after Him;
and they returned and sought· God^◦ ·in·​·the·​·dawn.

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock,
and God^◦ Most·​·High was their Redeemer.

³⁶ But they enticed Him with their mouth,
and with their tongue they lied to Him.

³⁷ And their heart was not right^◦ with^▵ Him,
neither were· they ·faithful in His covenant.

³⁸ But He^◦, from compassion, made·​·atonement for their iniquity,
and destroyed them not;
and He multiplied to turn·​·back His anger,
and did not stir·​·up all His fury.

³⁹ And He remembered that they^◦ were flesh;
a wind that goes^◦ and returns not.

⁴⁰ How often did they rebel against Him in the wilderness,
and cause· Him ·grief in the solitude!

⁴¹ And they turned·​·back and tempted God^◦,
and the Holy·​·One of Israel they aggrieved.

⁴² They remembered not His hand,
on the day when^▵ He ransomed them from the adversary;

⁴³ who set His signs in Egypt,
and His miracles in the field of Zoan;

⁴⁴ and He turned to blood their rivers^◦;
and their streams so that they could not^▵ drink.

⁴⁵ He sent among^◦ them a flying·​·swarm, and it devoured them;
and frogs, and they destroyed them.

⁴⁶ And He gave their produce to the caterpillar,
and their toil to the locust.

⁴⁷ He killed their vine with hail,
and their mulberry·​·fig·​·trees with heavy·​·hail.

⁴⁸ And He closed·​·in their beasts^* with the hail,
and their livestock with embers.

⁴⁹ He sent against^◦ them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and adversity,
a sending·​·out of evil angels^*

⁵⁰ He pondered a trail for His anger; He kept· not ·back their soul from death;
and closed·​·in their life to the pestilence;

⁵¹ and He smote all the firstborn in Egypt,
the beginning^◦ of their vigor in the tents of Ham;

⁵² and He made His people to journey as a flock,
and He directed them in the wilderness as a drove.

⁵³ And He led them to security, and they dreaded not;
and the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴ And He brought· them ·in to^▵ the border of His holiness,
this mountain which His right·​·hand had gotten.

⁵⁵ And He drove·​·out the nations from before them, and allotted^◦ them an inheritance by a cord^*,
and made the tribes^◦ of Israel to inhabit their tents.

⁵⁶ But they tempted and rebelled against the Most·​·High God,
and kept not His testimonies.

⁵⁷ And they turned·​·away, and acted·​·treacherously as their fathers;
they were turned back as a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸ And they provoked Him with their high·​·places,
and made· Him ·zealous with their graven images.

⁵⁹ God heard, and was·​·wroth,
and rejected Israel exceedingly;

⁶⁰ and He abandoned the Habitation of Shiloh,
the Tabernacle which He inhabited among^◦ man;

⁶¹ and He gave His strength into^◦ captivity,
and His splendor into the hand of the adversary.

⁶² And He shut up His people for the sword;
and was·​·wroth in His inheritance.

⁶³ Fire devoured its young·​·men;
and its virgins were not wedded^*.

⁶⁴ Its priests fell by the sword;
and its widows wept not.

⁶⁵ And the Lord awoke, as one who sleeps,
as a hero singing·​·aloud from wine.

⁶⁶ And He smote His adversaries backward;
He gave to them eternal reproach.

⁶⁷ And He rejected the tent of Joseph,
and the tribe^◦ of Ephraim He chose not;

⁶⁸ but He chose the tribe^◦ of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved.

⁶⁹ And He built His sanctuary as^▵ the exalted places,
as the earth, which He founded to eternity.

⁷⁰ And He chose David His servant,
and took him from the pens of the flock;

⁷¹ from following after the ewes giving·​·milk^◦, He brought· him ·in,
to pasture Jacob, His people, and Israel, His inheritance.

⁷² And he^* pastured them according·​·to the integrity of his heart;
and led them by the understanding of the palms of his hands.