¹⁸ And they try God in their heart, To ask food for their lust.

⁴ And the rabble who `are' in its midst have lusted greatly, and the sons of Israel also turn back and weep, and say, `Who doth give us flesh?

⁹ neither may we tempt the Christ, as also certain of them did tempt, and by the serpents did perish;

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

³ and the sons of Israel say unto them, `Oh that we had died by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt, in our sitting by the flesh-pot, in our eating bread to satiety -- for ye have brought us out unto this wilderness to put all this assembly to death with hunger.'

¹⁶ `Ye do not try Jehovah your God as ye tried in Massah;

⁹ Where your fathers have tried Me, Have proved Me, yea, have seen My work.

¹⁴ And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

¹⁵ And He giveth to them their request, And sendeth leanness into their soul.

⁶ and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.

² ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

³ ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.