Daily Bread

⁶ You alone are the Lord.^(A) You made the heavens,^(B) even the highest heavens, and all their starry host,^(C) the earth^(D) and all that is on it, the seas^(E) and all that is in them.^(F) You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven^(G) worship you.

⁷ “You are the Lord God, who chose Abram^(H) and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans^(I) and named him Abraham.^{(J) 8} You found his heart faithful to you, and you made a covenant with him to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites and Girgashites.^(K) You have kept your promise^(L) because you are righteous.^(M)

⁹ “You saw the suffering of our ancestors in Egypt;^(N) you heard their cry at the Red Sea.^{[a](O) 10} You sent signs^(P) and wonders^(Q) against Pharaoh, against all his officials and all the people of his land, for you knew how arrogantly the Egyptians treated them. You made a name^(R) for yourself,^(S) which remains to this day. ¹¹ You divided the sea before them,^(T) so that they passed through it on dry ground, but you hurled their pursuers into the depths,^(U) like a stone into mighty waters.^{(V) 12} By day^(W) you led^(X) them with a pillar of cloud,^(Y) and by night with a pillar of fire to give them light on the way they were to take.

¹³ “You came down on Mount Sinai;^(Z) you spoke^(AA) to them from heaven.^(AB) You gave them regulations and laws that are just^(AC) and right, and decrees and commands that are good.^{(AD) 14} You made known to them your holy Sabbath^(AE) and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses. ¹⁵ In their hunger you gave them bread from heaven^(AF) and in their thirst you brought them water from the rock;^(AG) you told them to go in and take possession of the land you had sworn with uplifted hand^(AH) to give them.^(AI)

¹⁶ “But they, our ancestors, became arrogant and stiff-necked,^(AJ) and they did not obey your commands.^{(AK) 17} They refused to listen and failed to remember^(AL) the miracles^(AM) you performed among them. They became stiff-necked^(AN) and in their rebellion appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery.^(AO) But you are a forgiving God,^(AP) gracious and compassionate,^(AQ) slow to anger^(AR) and abounding in love.^(AS) Therefore you did not desert them,^{(AT) 18} even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf^(AU) and said, ‘This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt,’ or when they committed awful blasphemies.^(AV)

¹⁹ “Because of your great compassion you did not abandon^(AW) them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud^(AX) did not fail to guide them on their path, nor the pillar of fire by night to shine on the way they were to take. ²⁰ You gave your good Spirit^(AY) to instruct^(AZ) them. You did not withhold your manna^(BA) from their mouths, and you gave them water^(BB) for their thirst. ²¹ For forty years^(BC) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,^(BD) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.^(BE)