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The bravest have been stripped of their spoil and now are sleeping their final sleep; not one of these courageous men finds strength to raise his hands.

"Will Adonai reject forever? will he never show his favor again?

Has his grace permanently disappeared? Is his word to all generations done away?

Has God forgotten to be compassionate? Has he in anger withheld his mercy?" (Selah)

we will not hide from their descendants; we will tell the generation to come the praises of Adonai and his strength, the wonders that he has performed.

who could then put their confidence in God, not forgetting God's deeds, but obeying his mitzvot.

They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to live by his Torah.

They forgot what he had done, his wonders which he had shown them.

True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, until the vadis overflowed; but what about bread? Can he give that? Can he provide meat for his people?"

Therefore, when Adonai heard, he was angry; fire blazed up against Ya‘akov; his anger mounted against Isra'el;

because they had no faith in God, no trust in his power to save.

He stirred up the east wind in heaven, brought on the south wind by his power,

Still, they kept on sinning and put no faith in his wonders.

for their hearts were not right with him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

Yet he, because he is full of compassion, forgave their sin and did not destroy; many times he turned away his anger and didn't rouse all his wrath.

They didn't remember how he used his hand on the day he redeemed them from their enemy,

how he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Tzo‘an.

He sent over them his fierce anger, fury, indignation and trouble, with a company of destroying angels

to clear a path for his wrath. He did not spare them from death, but gave them over to the plague,

But his own people he led out like sheep, guiding them like a flock in the desert.