This is the water of Strife, because the children of Israel spoke insolently before the Lord, and He was sanctified in them.

Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the Graves of Lust, you provoked the Lord.

And the people reviled Moses, saying, Give us water, that we may drink! And Moses said to them, Why do you revile me, and why do you tempt the Lord?

You called upon Me in trouble, and I delivered you; I heard you in the secret place of the storm; I proved you at the Water of Strife. Pause.

Today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, according to the day of trial in the wilderness;

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

Where your fathers tested Me, they tried Me, and saw My works forty years.

and said, If I have found grace in Your sight, let my Lord go with us; for the people are stiff-necked: and You shall take away our sins and our iniquities, and we will be Yours.

And I will be very angry with them in that day, and I will leave them and turn My face away from them, and they shall be devoured. And many evils and afflictions shall come upon them, and they shall say in that day, Because the Lord my God is not with me, these evils have come upon me.

And Phinehas the priest said to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh, Today we know that the Lord [is] with us, because you have not trespassed grievously against the Lord, and because you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.

Exalt and rejoice, you that dwell in Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of her.

Their heads have judged for gifts, and their priests have answered for hire, and her prophets have divined for silver: and yet they have rested on the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

"This is that Moses who said to the sons of Israel, 'The LORD our God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brothers.

whom our fathers did not desire to be obedient, but they rejected [him] and returned in their heart back to Egypt,