Psalms 78:25-41

²⁵Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.

²⁶He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;

²⁷And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,

²⁸And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:

²⁹And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

³⁰They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

³¹When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

³²For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

³³And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

³⁴When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God;

³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, their redeemer.

³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;

³⁷For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

³⁸But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

³⁹And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

⁴⁰How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

⁴¹And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.