Study Desk

When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents overflowed. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?"

Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel

because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

He stirred the east wind from the heavens and drove the south wind by His might.

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

Their hearts were disloyal to Him, and they were unfaithful to His covenant.

Yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.

They did not remember His power-the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity-a band of destroying angels.

He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

He brought them to His holy land, to the hill country His right hand had acquired.

But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage.

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

His priests fell by the sword, but His widows could not lament.

He beat back His foes; He put them to everlasting shame.