⁵ I knew you in the wilderness, In the land of great drought.

⁷ For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

¹⁰ He found him in a desert land, In the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.

¹⁵ who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;

⁹ But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elements, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

³ But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

⁷ Yahweh is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

⁶ Neither said they, Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man lived?

² Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Yahweh, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

³ When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, You knew my path. In the way in which I walk, They have hidden a snare for me.

¹ > God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you, My flesh longs for you, In a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

⁷ I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, For you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

⁶ For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked shall perish.

²⁵ God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.