The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?

Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.

Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.

And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.

Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.

He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.

So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:

they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.

In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for his wondrous works.

And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:

But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.

And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:

How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink.

He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.

And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.

And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.

And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.

He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.

And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.

And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.

Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.

And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.

And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.

And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,

To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.

And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.

A psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathens are come into thy inheritance, they have defiled thy holy temple: they have made Jerusalem as a place to keep fruit.

They have given the dead bodies of thy servants to be meat for the fowls of the air: the flesh of thy saints for the beasts of the earth.

They have poured out their blood as water, round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours: a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

How long, O Lord, wilt thou be angry for ever: shall thy zeal be kindled like a fire?

Pour out thy wrath upon the nations that have not known thee: and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.

Because they have devoured Jacob; and have laid waste his place.

Remember not our former iniquities: let thy mercies speedily prevent us, for we are become exceeding poor.

Help us, O God, our saviour: and for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us: and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake:

Lest they should say among the Gentiles: Where is their God? And let him be made known among the nations before our eyes, By the revenging the blood of thy servants, which hath been shed:

Let the sighing of the prisoners come in before thee. According to the greatness of thy arm, take possession of the children of them that have been put to death.

And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

But we thy people, and the sheep of thy pasture, will give thanks to thee for ever. We will shew forth thy praise, unto generation and generation.

Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, a testimony for Asaph, a psalm.

Give ear, O thou that rulest Israel: thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep. Thou that sittest upon the cherubims, shine forth

Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasses. Stir up thy might, and come to save us.

Convert us, O God: and shew us thy face, and we shall be saved.

O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy servant?

How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us.

O God of hosts, convert us: and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

Thou hast brought a vineyard out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the Gentiles and planted it.

Thou wast the guide of its journey in its sight: thou plantedst the roots thereof, and it filled the land.

The shadow of it covered the hills: and the branches thereof the cedars of God.

It stretched forth its branches unto the sea, and its boughs unto the river.

Why hast thou broken down the hedge thereof, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck it?

The boar out of the wood hath laid it waste: and a singular wild beast hath devoured it.

Turn again, O God of hosts, look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vineyard:

And perfect the same which thy right hand hath planted: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

Things set on fire and dug down shall perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand: and upon the son of man whom thou hast confirmed for thyself.

And we depart not from thee, thou shalt quicken us: and we will call upon thy name.

O Lord God of hosts, convert us and shew thy face, and we shall be saved.

Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself.

Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob.

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.

For it is a commandment in Israel, and a judgment to the God of Jacob.

He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not.

He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.

Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

There shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.