^{13 Ref} They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

^{14 Ref} And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

^{15 Ref} And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

^{16 Ref} And they are envious of Moses in the camp, Of Aaron, Jehovah's holy one.

^{17 Ref} Earth openeth, and swalloweth up Dathan, And covereth over the company of Abiram.

^{18 Ref} And fire burneth among their company, A flame setteth on fire the wicked.

^{19 Ref} They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,

^{20 Ref} And change their Honour Into the form of an ox eating herbs.

^{21 Ref} They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

^{22 Ref} Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.

^{23 Ref} And He saith to destroy them, Unless Moses, His chosen one, Had stood in the breach before Him, To turn back His wrath from destroying.

^{24 Ref} And they kick against the desirable land, They have not given credence to His word.

^{25 Ref} And they murmur in their tents, They have not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah.

^{26 Ref} And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,

^{27 Ref} And to cause their seed to fall among nations, And to scatter them through lands.

^{28 Ref} And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

^{29 Ref} And they provoke to anger by their actions, And a plague breaketh forth upon them,

^{30 Ref} And Phinehas standeth, and executeth judgment, And the plague is restrained,

^{31 Ref} And it is reckoned to him to righteousness, To all generations -- unto the age.

^{32 Ref} And they cause wrath by the waters of Meribah, And it is evil to Moses for their sakes,