3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
4We will not hide them from their children, Shewing to the generation to come The praises of the Lord, and his strength, And his wonderful works that he hath done.
5For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children:
6That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; Who should arise and declare them to their children:
7That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments:
8And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation; A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
10They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
11And forgat his works, And his wonders that he had shewed them.
12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
15He clave the rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
17And they sinned yet more against him By provoking the most High in the wilderness.
18And they tempted God in their heart By asking meat for their lust.
19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
20Behold, 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?
21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: So a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also came up against Israel;
22Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation:
23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, And opened the doors of heaven,
24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, And had given them of the corn of heaven.
25Man did eat angels’ food: He sent them meat to the full.
26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: And by his power he brought in the south wind.
27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, And feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.
29So they did eat, and were well filled: For he gave them their own desire;
30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31The wrath of God came upon them, And slew the fattest of them, And smote down the chosen men of Israel.
32For all this they sinned still, And believed not for his wondrous works.
33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in trouble.
34When he slew them, then they sought him: And they returned and inquired early after God.
35And they remembered that God was their rock, And the high God their redeemer.
36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, And they lied unto him with their tongues.
37For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
38But 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.
39For he remembered that they were but flesh; A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.
42They remembered not his hand: Nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan:
44And had turned their rivers into blood; And their floods, that they could not drink.
45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labour unto the locust.
47He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore trees with frost.
48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, By sending evil angels among them.
50He made a way to his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence;
51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; The chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, Even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.