Daily Bread

²⁴ The Lord made his people very fruitful;
    he made them too numerous^(A) for their foes,
²⁵ whose hearts he turned^(B) to hate his people,
    to conspire^(C) against his servants.
²⁶ He sent Moses^(D) his servant,
    and Aaron,^(E) whom he had chosen.^(F)
27 They performed^(G) his signs^(H) among them,
    his wonders^(I) in the land of Ham.
²⁸ He sent darkness^(J) and made the land dark—
    for had they not rebelled against^(K) his words?
²⁹ He turned their waters into blood,^(L)
    causing their fish to die.^(M)
30 Their land teemed with frogs,^(N)
    which went up into the bedrooms of their rulers.
³¹ He spoke,^(O) and there came swarms of flies,^(P)
    and gnats^(Q) throughout their country.
³² He turned their rain into hail,^(R)
    with lightning throughout their land;
³³ he struck down their vines^(S) and fig trees^(T)
    and shattered the trees of their country.
³⁴ He spoke,^(U) and the locusts came,^(V)
    grasshoppers^(W) without number;^(X)
35 they ate up every green thing in their land,
    ate up the produce of their soil.
³⁶ Then he struck down all the firstborn^(Y) in their land,
    the firstfruits of all their manhood.
³⁷ He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold,^(Z)
    and from among their tribes no one faltered.
³⁸ Egypt was glad when they left,
    because dread of Israel^(AA) had fallen on them.

³⁹ He spread out a cloud^(AB) as a covering,
    and a fire to give light at night.^(AC)
40 They asked,^(AD) and he brought them quail;^(AE)
    he fed them well with the bread of heaven.^(AF)
41 He opened the rock,^(AG) and water gushed out;
    it flowed like a river in the desert.

⁴² For he remembered his holy promise^(AH)
    given to his servant Abraham.
⁴³ He brought out his people with rejoicing,^(AI)
    his chosen ones with shouts of joy;
⁴⁴ he gave them the lands of the nations,^(AJ)
    and they fell heir to what others had toiled^(AK) for—
⁴⁵ that they might keep his precepts
    and observe his laws.^(AL)

Praise the Lord.^[a](AM)