Psalms [Praises] 78:19-47

¹⁹Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”

²¹Therefore Adonai sh'ma ·heard obeyed·, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob Supplanter, anger also went up against Israel God prevails,

²²because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his yishu'ah ·salvation·.

²³Yet he enjoined the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

²⁴He rained down manna ·what is it· on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

²⁵Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

²⁶He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

²⁷He rained also meat on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

²⁸He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.

²⁹So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

³⁰They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

³¹when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel God prevails.

³²For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.

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

³⁴When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They made teshuvah ·complete return· and sought God earnestly.

³⁵They remembered that God was their rock, haElyon the Most High God, their redeemer.

³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

³⁷For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

³⁸But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.

³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and does not come again.

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

⁴¹They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the haKadosh Isra'el the Holy One of God prevails.

⁴²They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

⁴³how he set his signs in Egypt Abode of slavery, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

⁴⁴he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.