who brought you through that great and terrible wilderness, where the biting serpent [is], and the scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you a fountain of water out of the flinty rock;

who fed you with manna in the wilderness, which you knew not, and your fathers knew not; that He might afflict you, and thoroughly test you, and do you good in your latter days.

Yet You in Your great mercy did not forsake them in the wilderness; You did not turn away from them the pillar of the cloud by day, to guide them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to enlighten for them the way in which they should walk.

And You sustained them forty years in the wilderness; You did not allow anything to fail them. Their garments did not wear out, and their feet were not bruised.

They wandered in the wilderness in a dry land; they found no way to a city of habitation.

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

Who is this that comes up all white, leaning on her kinsman? I raised you up under an apple tree; there your mother brought you forth; there she that bore you brought you forth.

And they said not, Where is the Lord, who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who guided us in the wilderness, in an untried and trackless land, in a land in which no man has entered, and no man has dwelt in?

I tended to you as a shepherd in the wilderness, in an uninhabited land.

His voice was made audible from heaven to instruct you, and He showed you His great fire upon the earth, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire.

And You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and You did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water in their thirst.

You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.

Be not as the horse and mule, which have no understanding; [but you must] constrain their jaws with bit and bridle, lest they should come near to you.

He sends His word to Jacob, His ordinances and judgments to Israel.

He has not done so to any [other] nation; and He has not shown them His judgments.

and know His will, and approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law,

Much in every way! First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.

Keep me as the apple of Your eye from those that resist Your right hand; You shall screen me by the covering of Your wings,

Keep my commandments, and you shall live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [your] eyes.

For thus says the Lord Almighty; After the glory has he sent Me to the nations that spoiled you: for he that touches you is as one that touches the apple of His eye.