^{1 Ref} Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

^{2 Ref} I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,

^{3 Ref} Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.

^{4 Ref} We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.

^{5 Ref} For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;

^{6 Ref} That the generation to come might know `them', even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell `them' to their children,

^{7 Ref} That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,

^{8 Ref} And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

^{9 Ref} The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

^{10 Ref} They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;

^{11 Ref} And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.

^{12 Ref} Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

^{13 Ref} He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.

^{14 Ref} In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.

^{15 Ref} He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

^{16 Ref} He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.

^{17 Ref} Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

^{18 Ref} And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

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

^{20 Ref} Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?

^{21 Ref} Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;

^{22 Ref} Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.

^{23 Ref} Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;

^{24 Ref} And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.

^{25 Ref} Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.

^{26 Ref} He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.

^{27 Ref} He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:

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; And he gave them their own desire.

^{30 Ref} They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,

^{31 Ref} When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.