CLV(i)
17 Yet they continued still to sin against Him, To rebel against the Supreme in an arid place."
18 They probed El in their heart By requesting food for their soul.
19 So they spoke against Elohim; they said, Is El able to arrange a table in the wilderness?
20 Behold, He smote the rock, and waters gushed out, And the watercourses overflowed, But is He able to give bread? Or can He prepare meat for His people?
21 Wherefore Yahweh heard, and He was enraged, And a fire was ignited against Jacob, And indeed anger ascended against Israel."
22 For they did not believe in Elohim, And they did not trust in His salvation."
23 Yet He enjoined the skies above, And He opened the double doors of the heavens."
24 He rained on them manna to eat, And He gave them grain of the heavens."
25 Each one ate bread of sturdy ones; He sent provision to them, to satisfaction."
26 He made an east wind to journey in the heavens, And He drove forth a south wind by His strength."
27 So He rained meat on them like soil dust, And the winged flyer like sand of the seas."
28 And He cast them down within His camp, Round about His Grand Tabernacle."
29 They ate and were surfeited exceedingly, And He brought all their yearning to them."
30 Yet they were not alienated from their yearning; Their food was still in their mouth,
31 When the anger of Elohim ascended against them; He killed the stoutest of them, And the choice ones of Israel He cut off."
32 In spite of all this they still sinned And believed not in His marvelous works.
33 So He ended their days in failure, And their years in panic."
34 Whenever He killed them, then they sought after Him, And they returned and sought early for El."
35 Then they remembered that Elohim is their Rock, And El, the Supreme, is their Redeemer."
36 Yet they would entice Him with their mouth And lie to Him with their tongue.
37 Their heart, it was not established before Him, And they were not faithful to His covenant."
38 Yet He was compassionate; He made a propitiatory shelter for depravity, And He did not bring ruin; He acted many times to reverse His anger, And He would not rouse all His fury."
39 He ever remembered that they were flesh, A wind going that is not returning."
40 How often they defied Him in the wilderness; They grieved Him in the desolation.
41 They were again and again probing El, And the Holy One of Israel they set as a mark."
42 They did not remember His hand:The day when He ransomed them from the foe,