¹³ They have hasted -- forgotten His works, They have not waited for His counsel.

²⁴ And the people murmur against Moses, saying, `What do we drink?'

² And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

¹¹ And they forget His doings, And His wonders that He shewed them.

¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I `am' Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

¹⁸ O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

²⁵ And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

¹¹ Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.

⁷ and he calleth the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the `strife' of the sons of Israel, and because of their `trying' Jehovah, saying, `Is Jehovah in our midst or not?'

² and the people strive with Moses, and say, `Give us water, and we drink.' And Moses saith to them, `What? -- ye strive with me, what? -- ye try Jehovah?'

¹⁷ Thou dost bring them in, And dost plant them In a mountain of Thine inheritance, A fixed place for Thy dwelling Thou hast made, O Jehovah; A sanctuary, O Lord, Thy hands have established;