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Yet He commanded the clouds above And ^(C1)opened the doors of heaven;

He ^(C1)rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them ^(F1)(C2)food from heaven.

Man ate the bread of ^(F1)angels; He sent them ^(F2)food ^(F3)(C1)in abundance.

He ^(C1)made the east wind blow in the sky And by His ^(F1)power He directed the south wind.

When He rained meat upon them like the dust, Even ^(C1)winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

He let them fall in the midst of ^(F1)their camp, All around their dwellings.

So they ^(C1)ate and were well filled, And He ^(F1)satisfied their longing.

^(F1)Yet before they had abandoned their longing, ^(C1)While their food was in their mouths,

The ^(C1)anger of God rose against them And killed ^(F1)some of their ^(C2)strongest ones, And ^(F2)subdued the choice men of Israel.

In spite of all this they still sinned And ^(C2)did not believe in His wonderful works.

So He brought ^(C1)their days to an end in futility, And their years to an end in sudden terror.

When He killed them, then they ^(C1)sought Him, And they returned and searched ^(C2)diligently for God;

And they remembered that God was their ^(C1)rock, And the Most High God their ^(C2)Redeemer.

But they ^(C1)flattered Him with their mouth And ^(C2)lied to Him with their tongue.

For their heart was not ^(C1)steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful with His covenant.

But He, being ^(C1)compassionate, ^(F1)(C2)forgave their wrongdoing and did not destroy them; And often He ^(F2)(C3)restrained His anger And did not stir up all His wrath.

So ^(C1)He remembered that they were only ^(C2)flesh, A ^(F1)(C3)wind that passes and does not return.

How often they ^(C1)rebelled against Him in the wilderness And ^(C2)grieved Him in the ^(C3)desert!

Again and again they ^(F1)(C1)tempted God, And pained the ^(C2)Holy One of Israel.

They ^(C1)did not remember ^(C2)His ^(F1)power, The day when He ^(C3)redeemed them from the enemy,

When He performed His ^(C1)signs in Egypt And His ^(C2)marvels in the field of Zoan,

And ^(C1)turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

He sent swarms of ^(C1)flies among them that devoured them, And ^(C2)frogs that destroyed them.

He also gave their crops to the ^(C1)grasshopper And the product of their labor to the ^(C2)locust.

He ^(F1)destroyed their vines with ^(C1)hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.

He also turned their ^(C1)cattle over to the hailstones, And their herds to bolts of lightning.

He ^(C1)sent His burning anger upon them, Fury and indignation and trouble, A band of ^(F1)destroying angels.

He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their souls from death, But ^(C1)turned their lives over to the plague,

And ^(C1)struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The ^(C2)first and best of their vigor in the tents of ^(C3)Ham.

But He ^(C1)led His own people out like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness ^(C2)like a flock;

He led them ^(C1)safely, so that they did not fear; But ^(C2)the sea engulfed their enemies.

So ^(C1)He brought them to His holy ^(F1)land, To this ^(F2)(C2)hill country ^(C3)which His right hand had gained.

He also ^(C1)drove out the nations from them And ^(C2)apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement, And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.