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In the sight of their fathers he wrought marvels in the land of Egypt ,
in the fields of Zo '
an .
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He divided the sea and let them pass through it ,
and made the waters stand like a heap .
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In the daytime he led them with a cloud ,
and all the night with a fiery light .
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He cleft rocks in the wilderness ,
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep .
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He made streams come out of the rock ,
and caused waters to flow down like rivers .
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Yet they sinned still more against him ,
rebelling against the Most High in the desert .
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They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved .
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They spoke against God ,
saying , "
Can God spread a table in the wilderness ?
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He smote the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed .
Can he also give bread ,
or provide meat for his people ?"
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Therefore ,
when the LORD heard ,
he was full of wrath ;
a fire was kindled against Jacob ,
his anger mounted against Israel ;
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because they had no faith in God ,
and did not trust his saving power .
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Yet he commanded the skies above ,
and opened the doors of heaven ;
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and he rained down upon them manna to eat ,
and gave them the grain of heaven .
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Man ate of the bread of the angels ;
he sent them food in abundance .
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He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens ,
and by his power he led out the south wind ;
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he rained flesh upon them like dust ,
winged birds like the sand of the seas ;
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he let them fall in the midst of their camp ,
all around their habitations .
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And they ate and were well filled ,
for he gave them what they craved .
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But before they had sated their craving ,
while the food was still in their mouths ,
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the anger of God rose against them and he slew the strongest of them ,
and laid low the picked men of Israel .
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In spite of all this they still sinned ;
despite his wonders they did not believe .
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So he made their days vanish like a breath ,
and their years in terror .
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When he slew them ,
they sought for him ;
they repented and sought God earnestly .
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They remembered that God was their rock ,
the Most High God their redeemer .
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But they flattered him with their mouths ;
they lied to him with their tongues .
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Their heart was not steadfast toward him ;
they were not true to his covenant .
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Yet he ,
being compassionate ,
forgave their iniquity ,
and did not destroy them ;
he restrained his anger often ,
and did not stir up all his wrath .
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He remembered that they were but flesh ,
a wind that passes and comes not again .
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How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert !
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They tested him again and again ,
and provoked the Holy One of Israel .
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They did not keep in mind his power ,
or the day when he redeemed them from the foe ;
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when he wrought his signs in Egypt ,
and his miracles in the fields of Zo '
an .
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He turned their rivers to blood ,
so that they could not drink of their streams .
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He sent among them swarms of flies ,
which devoured them ,
and frogs ,
which destroyed them .
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He gave their crops to the caterpillar ,
and the fruit of their labor to the locust .
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He destroyed their vines with hail ,
and their sycamores with frost .
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He gave over their cattle to the hail ,
and their flocks to thunderbolts .
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He let loose on them his fierce anger ,
wrath ,
indignation ,
and distress ,
a company of destroying angels .
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He made a path for his anger ;
he did not spare them from death ,
but gave their lives over to the plague .
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He smote all the first-born in Egypt ,
the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham .