1 My people, give ear to my teaching: 2as I open my mouth in a poem 3What we have heard and known, 4we will not hide from their children. 5He set up a testimony in Jacob, 6that the next generation should know it, 7that in God they might put their confidence, 8and not be like their ancestors, 9Ephraimites, armed bowmen, 10They did not keep God’s covenant, 11They forgot what he had done, 12He did wonders before their ancestors 13Through the sea which he split he brought them, 14he led them by day with a cloud, 15From the rocks which he split in the wilderness, 16He brought streams out of the rock, 17Yet they still went on sinning against him, 18They wilfully challenged God, 19“Is God able,“ such was their challenge, 20From the rock that he struck there gushed water, 21When the LORD heard this, he was furious, 22For they put no trust in God, 23So he summoned the clouds above; 24he rained manna upon them for food, 25Everyone ate the bread of angels; 26He launched the east wind in the heavens, 27He rained meat upon them like dust, 28In the midst of their camp he dropped it, 29They ate and were more than filled; 30But the thing they desired became loathsome: 31the wrath of God rose against them. 32Yet for all this they sinned yet more, 33So he ended their days in a breath, 34When he slew them, then they sought after him, 35They remembered that God was their rock, 36But they flattered him with their mouth, 37Their heart was not steady with him, 38But he is full of pity: 39So he remembered that they were but flesh, 40But how often they rebelled in the desert, 41tempting God again and again, 42They did not remember his strength, 43how he set his signs in Egypt, 44He turned their canals into blood, 45He sent forth flies, which devoured them; 46Their crops he gave to the caterpillar, 47He slew their vines with hail, 48He delivered their cattle to the hail, 49He let loose his hot anger among them, 50He cleared a path for his anger, 51He struck down all the first-born in Egypt, 52He led forth his people like sheep, 53Securely he led them, and free from fear, 54To his holy realm he brought them, 55He drove out the nations before them, 56Yet they tempted and angered the Most High God, 57They drew back, false like their ancestors; 58Their shrines stirred him to anger, 59When God heard of this, he was furious, 60He abandoned his home in Shiloh, 61He gave his strength up to captivity, 62He gave his people to the sword, 63Fire devoured their young men, 64Their priests fell by the sword, 65Then the LORD awoke as from sleep, 66and he beat back his foes, 67He disowned the tent of Joseph, 68but he chose the tribe of Judah, 69And he built like the heights his sanctuary, 70And he chose David his servant, 71From the mother-ewes he brought him, 72With upright heart did he shepherd them,