Psalm
2 In a proverbial saying I will open my mouth;+
I will cause riddles of long ago to bubble forth,+
3 Which we have heard and know,+
And which our own fathers have related to us;+
4 Which we do not hide from their sons,+
Relating [them] even to the generation to come,+
The praises of Jehovah and his strength+
And his wonderful things that he has done.+
5 And he proceeded to raise up a reminder in Jacob,+
And a law he set in Israel,+
Things that he commanded our forefathers,+
To make them known to their sons;+
6 In order that the generation to come, the sons that were to be born, might know [them],+
That they might rise up and relate [them] to their sons,+
7 And that they might set their confidence in God* himself+
And not forget the practices of God*+ but observe his own commandments.+
8 And they should not become like their forefathers,+
A generation stubborn and rebellious,+
A generation who had not prepared their heart+
13 He split the sea, that he might let them pass over,+
And he caused the waters to stand like a dam.+
15 He proceeded to split rocks in the wilderness,+
That he might cause [them] to drink an abundance just like watery deeps.*+
16 And he went bringing forth streams out of a crag+
And causing waters to descend just like rivers.+
17 And they kept sinning still more against him+
By rebelling against the Most High in the waterless region;+
18 And they proceeded to test God* in their heart+
By asking for something to eat for their soul.+
19 So they began to speak against God.*+
They said: “Is God able to arrange a table in the wilderness?”+
That waters might flow and torrents themselves might flood forth.+
“Is he able also to give bread itself,+
Or can he prepare sustenance for his people?”+
21 That was why Jehovah heard and began to be furious;+
And fire itself was kindled against Jacob,+
And anger also ascended against Israel.+
26 He began making an east wind burst forth in the heavens+
And making a south wind blow by his own strength.+
27 And he proceeded to make sustenance rain upon them just like dust,+
Even winged flying creatures just like the sand grains of the seas.+
29 And they went eating and satisfying themselves very much,+
And what they desired he proceeded to bring to them.+
30 They had not turned aside from their desire,
While their food was yet in their mouth,+
31 When God’s wrath itself ascended against them.+
And he went killing among their stout ones;+
And the young men of Israel he made collapse.
35 And they began to remember that God* was their Rock,+
And that God the Most High was their Avenger.+
38 But he was merciful;+ he would cover the error+ and not bring ruin.+
And many times he made his anger turn back,+
And he would not rouse up all his rage.
40 How often they would rebel against him in the wilderness,+
They would make him feel hurt in the desert!+
41 And again and again they would put God* to the test,+
And they pained even the Holy One of Israel.+
42 They did not remember his hand,+
The day that he redeemed them from the adversary,+
43 How he put his signs in Egypt itself+
And his miracles in the field of Zoʹan;+
44 And how he began changing to blood their Nile canals,+
So that they could not drink from their own streams.+
45 He proceeded to send upon them gadflies, that these might eat them up;+
And frogs, that these might bring them to ruin.+
48 And he proceeded to hand over their beasts of burden even to the hail+
And their livestock to the flaming fever.
49 He went sending upon them his burning anger,+
Fury and denunciation and distress,+
Deputations of angels bringing calamity.+
50 He proceeded to prepare a pathway for his anger.+
He did not hold back their soul from death itself;
51 Finally he struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,+
The beginning of their generative power* in the tents of Ham.+
52 Afterward he caused his people to depart just like a flock,+
And conducted them like a drove in the wilderness.+
53 And he kept leading them in security, and they felt no dread;+
And the sea covered their enemies themselves.+
54 And he proceeded to bring them to his holy territory,+
This mountainous region that his right hand acquired.+
55 And because of them he gradually drove out the nations,+
And by the measuring line he went allotting them an inheritance,+
So that he caused the tribes of Israel to reside in their own homes.*+
56 And they began to test and rebel against God the Most High,+
And his reminders they did not keep.+
57 They also kept turning back and acting treacherously like their forefathers;+
They turned around like a loose bow.+
58 And they kept offending him with their high places,+
And with their graven images they kept inciting him to jealousy.+
60 And he finally forsook the tabernacle of Shiʹloh,+
The tent in which he resided among earthling men.+
61 And he proceeded to give his strength even to captivity+
And his beauty into the hand of the adversary.+
62 And he kept handing over his people to the sword itself,+
And against his inheritance he became furious.+
66 And he went striking down his adversaries from behind;+
A reproach of indefinite duration he gave to them.+
69 And he began to build his sanctuary just like the heights,+
Like the earth that he has founded to time indefinite.+