Daily Bread

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled^(A) against him in the wilderness^(B)
    and grieved him^(C) in the wasteland!
⁴¹ Again and again they put God to the test;^(D)
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.^(E)
42 They did not remember^(F) his power—
    the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,^(G)
43 the day he displayed his signs^(H) in Egypt,
    his wonders^(I) in the region of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He turned their river into blood;^(J)
    they could not drink from their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies^(K) that devoured them,
    and frogs^(L) that devastated them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to the grasshopper,^(M)
    their produce to the locust.^(N)
47 He destroyed their vines with hail^(O)
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
⁴⁸ He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock^(P) to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹ He unleashed against them his hot anger,^(Q)
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.^(R)
50 He prepared a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death
    but gave them over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,^(S)
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^(T)
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;^(U)
    he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
⁵³ He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
    but the sea engulfed^(V) their enemies.^(W)
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to the hill country his right hand^(X) had taken.
⁵⁵ He drove out nations^(Y) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;^(Z)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

⁵⁶ But they put God to the test
    and rebelled against the Most High;
    they did not keep his statutes.
⁵⁷ Like their ancestors^(AA) they were disloyal and faithless,
    as unreliable as a faulty bow.^(AB)
58 They angered him^(AC) with their high places;^(AD)
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.^(AE)
59 When God heard^(AF) them, he was furious;^(AG)
    he rejected Israel^(AH) completely.
⁶⁰ He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,^(AI)
    the tent he had set up among humans.^(AJ)
61 He sent the ark of his might^(AK) into captivity,^(AL)
    his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
⁶² He gave his people over to the sword;^(AM)
    he was furious with his inheritance.^(AN)
63 Fire consumed^(AO) their young men,
    and their young women had no wedding songs;^(AP)
64 their priests were put to the sword,^(AQ)
    and their widows could not weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,^(AR)
    as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
⁶⁶ He beat back his enemies;
    he put them to everlasting shame.^(AS)
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
    he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;^(AT)
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,^(AU)
    Mount Zion,^(AV) which he loved.
⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary^(AW) like the heights,
    like the earth that he established forever.
⁷⁰ He chose David^(AX) his servant
    and took him from the sheep pens;
⁷¹ from tending the sheep^(AY) he brought him
    to be the shepherd^(AZ) of his people Jacob,
    of Israel his inheritance.
⁷² And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;^(BA)
    with skillful hands he led them.