in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
[13] He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and
he made the waters to stand as an heap.
[14] In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the
night with a light of fire.
[15] He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the
great depths.
[16] He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
[17]
And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
[18] And they tempted
God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
[19] Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God
furnish a table in the wilderness?
[20] Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the
streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?
[21] Therefore the LORD
heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
[22]
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
[23] Though he had commanded
the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
[24] And had rained down manna upon them
to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
[25] Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to
the full.
[26] He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south
wind.
[27] He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
[28]
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
[29] So they did eat, and were
well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
[30] They were not estranged from their lust. But while their
meat was yet in their mouths,
[31] The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and
smote down the chosen men of Israel.
[32] For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous
works.
[33] Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
[34] When he slew
them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
[35] And they remembered
that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
[36] Nevertheless they did flatter him with their
mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
[37] For their heart was not right with him, neither were
they stedfast in his covenant.
[38] But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed
them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
[39] For he remembered
that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
[40] How oft did they provoke
him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
[41] Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and
limited the Holy One of Israel.
[42] They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them
from the enemy.
[43] How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
[44]
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
[45] He sent divers sorts
of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
[46] He gave also their increase
unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
[47] He destroyed their vines with hail, and their
sycomore trees with frost.
[48] He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
[49]
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels
among them.
[50] He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life
over to the pestilence;
[51] And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles
of Ham:
[52] But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a
flock.
[53] And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
[54]
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had
purchased.
[55] He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and
made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
[56] Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,
and kept not his testimonies:
[57] But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned
aside like a deceitful bow.
[58] For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him
to jealousy with their graven images.
[59] When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred
Israel:
[60] So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
[61] And
delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
[62] He gave his people over
also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
[63] The fire consumed their young men; and
their maidens were not given to marriage.
[64] Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made
no lamentation.
[65] Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by
reason of wine.
[66] And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
[67]
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
[68] But chose the
tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
[69] And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the
earth which he hath established for ever.
[70] He chose David also his servant, and took him from the
sheepfolds:
[71] From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and