who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with the fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land with no water; who has brought water for you out of the rock of flint;

who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers had not known, to humble you and to test you, to do you good in the end;

yet in Your manifold mercies You did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, to lead them on the road; nor the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way they should go.

Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

They wandered in the wilderness in a desolate way; they found no city to dwell in.

Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

A Relative: Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree. There your mother travailed with you; there she travailed with you and bore you.

Nor did they say, Where is Jehovah who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of dry places, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man lived?

I have known you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Out of the heavens He has caused you to hear His voice, to instruct you; on earth He has shown you His great fire, and you have heard His Words out of the midst of the fire.

You also gave Your good Spirit to teach them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.

You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from distress; You shall enclose me with shouts of deliverance. Selah.

Do not be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, so that they do not come near you.

He declares His Word unto Jacob, His Statutes and His justice unto Israel.

He has not dealt thus with any other nation; and they have not known His justice. Praise YAH!

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

Much in every way: chiefly because they were entrusted with the Words of God.

Keep me as the pupil of the eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings,

Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.

For thus says Jehovah of Hosts: He has sent Me after glory to the nations who plundered you; for he who touches you touches the pupil of His eye.