Take heed, O my people, to my law! Lean your ear to the words of my mouth!
I will open in I will utter riddles from
as many as we heard and we know them, and our fathers described to us.
They were not hidden from their children for generation the praises of the and his dominations, and his wonders which he did.
For he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and a law in Israel, which he gave charge our fathers, to make them known their sons;
so that should know being birthed. And they shall rise up and report them their sons,
that they should put upon and should not forget the works of God, but of his commandments
that they should not become as their fathers generation a generation which did not straightened out its own heart, and was not
of Ephraim stretching tight and shooting with bows, turned back in of battle.
They did not guard the covenant of God, and by
And they forgot his good works, and his wonders which he showed to them,
before their fathers; what he did in of Egypt in of Tanis.
and led them through; as a water bag.
And he guided them with a cloud by day, and night with of fire.
He tore open in and he gave them a drink as in deep
And he brought water from and he led it down as rivers of waters.
And they proceeded still to sin against him; they greatly embittered the highest in a waterless place.
And they put God to the test in their hearts, to ask foods for their lives.
And they spoke ill of God. And they said, Shall God be able to prepare a table in
For when he struck and there flowed waters, and rushing streams inundated, shall also bread or prepare a table his people?
On account of this and was raised in anger. And a fire was lit in Jacob, and anger ascended upon Israel.
For they did not trust in God, nor did they hope upon his deliverance.
And he gave charge to clouds far above, and of heaven were opened,
and rained upon to eat; and the bread
He departed from heaven, and he brought on by his power
And they fell in of their camp round about their tents.
And they ate, and were filled up exceedingly. And their desire to them.
They were not deprived of their desire; but food in their mouth,
and of God ascended upon them; and he killed in their plenty; and the chosen ones of Israel he impeded.
In all these things they sinned still, and did not trust in his wonders.
And ended and their years with haste.
Whenever he killed them, then they sought him; and they turned and rose early to search for God.
And they remembered that God their helper and God the Highest ransomer
And they loved him by their mouth, but by their tongue they lied to him.
And their heart was not straight with him, nor did they trust in his covenant.
But he is one pitying, and he shall atone their sins, and he will not utterly destroy. And he will fill the turning of his rage, and shall not kindle all his anger.
And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind going forth and not returning.
How often they greatly embittered him in the wilderness; they provoked him to anger in land
And they turned and tested God; even the holy one of Israel they provoked.
They did not remember his hand of which he ransomed them from out of of one afflicting;
he made in and his miracles in of Tanis;
and he converted into and their showers so as to not drink.
He sent to them and it devoured them; and and it ruined them.
And he appointed the blight for their fruits; and for their miseries
He killed by and their sycamine trees by the frost.
And he delivered up unto and their possessions to the fire.
He sent out to them of his rage; rage and anger and affliction; a commission through angels
He opened of his anger; he did not spare from and their cattle
And he struck every first-born in of Egypt; first-fruit of all their toil in the tents of Ham.
And he departed as and he led them up as a flock in
And he guided them with hope; and they were not timid, and their enemies
And he brought them into mountain this mountain which acquired
And he cast out before and he allotted them by a line of inheritance. And he encamped among
And they tested and greatly embittered God the highest; and his testimonies they did not keep.
And they turned and annulled, as also their fathers converted into bow
And they provoked him to anger in their hills; and in their carvings they provoked him to jealousy.
God heard, and he overlooked; and he treated with contempt
And he thrust away the tent of Shiloh, in which he encamped among men.
And he delivered up into and their beauty into of the enemies.
And he consigned by and his inheritance he overlooked.
Their young men were devoured by fire, and their virgins were not mourned for.
Their priests by and their widows shall not be wept over.
And awakened as a mighty one being dizzy from wine.
And he struck his enemies unto the rear; scorn
And he thrust away the tent of Joseph; and the tribe of Ephraim he did not choose.
He chose the tribe of Judah, mount Zion which he loved.
And he built as in the earth; he laid its foundation into the eon.
And he chose David his servant; and he took him from out of the flocks of the sheep;
the ones giving birth he took him, to tend Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
And he tended them in the innocence of his heart; and in the skillfulness of his hands he guided them.