Psalms 78:18-44

¹⁸And they tempted God in their hearts; that they asked meats to their lives.

¹⁹And they spake evil of God; they said, Whether God may make ready a board in desert?

²⁰For he smote a stone, and waters flowed; and streams went out in abundance. Whether also he may give bread; either make ready a board to his people?

²¹Therefore the Lord heard, and delayed; and fire was kindled in Jacob, and the ire of God ascended or went up on Israel.

²²For they believed not in God; neither hoped in his health.

²³And he commanded to the clouds above; and he opened the gates of heaven.

²⁴And he rained to them manna for to eat; and he gave to them bread of heaven.

²⁵Man ate the bread of angels; he sent to them meats in abundance.

²⁶He turned over the south wind from heaven; and he brought in by his virtue the west wind.

²⁷And he rained fleshes as dust on them; and also volatiles feathered, as the gravel of the sea.

²⁸And those felled in the midst of their castles or they fell in the middle of the tents of them; about the taber-nacles of them.

²⁹And they ate, and were filled greatly, and he brought their desire to them;

³⁰they were not defrauded of their desire. Yet their meats were in their mouth;

³¹and the wrath of God ascended or went up on them. And he killed the fat men of them; and he hindered the chosen men of Israel.

³²In all these things they sinned yet; and believed not in the marvels of God.

³³And the days of them failed in vanity; and the years of them failed with haste.

³⁴When he killed them, they sought him; and they turned again, and early they came to him.

³⁵And they bethought, that God is the helper of them; and the high God is the again-buyer of them.

³⁶And they loved him in their mouth; and with their tongue they lied to him.

³⁷Forsooth the heart of them was not rightful or right with him; neither they were had faithful in his testament.

³⁸But he is merciful, and he shall be made merciful to the sins of them; and he shall not destroy them. And he did greatly, to turn away his ire; and he kindled not all his ire.

³⁹And he bethought, that they be flesh; a spirit going, and not turning again.

⁴⁰How oft made they him wroth in desert; they stirred him into ire in a place without water.

⁴¹And they were turned, and tempted God; and they wrathed the Holy of Israel.

⁴²They bethought not on his hand; in the day in which he again-bought them from the hand of the troubler.

⁴³As he setted or put his signs in Egypt; and his great wonders in the field of Tanis.

⁴⁴And he turned the floods of them, and the rains of them, into blood; that they should not drink.