^{17 Ref} And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

^{18 Ref} And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

^{19 Ref} Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

^{20 Ref} 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 Ref} Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

^{22 Ref} Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

^{23 Ref} Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

^{24 Ref} And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

^{25 Ref} Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

^{26 Ref} He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

^{27 Ref} 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 Ref} So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

^{30 Ref} They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

^{31 Ref} The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

^{32 Ref} For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

^{33 Ref} Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

^{34 Ref} When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

^{35 Ref} And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

^{36 Ref} Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

^{37 Ref} For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

^{38 Ref} 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 Ref} For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

^{40 Ref} How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

^{41 Ref} Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

^{42 Ref} They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.