⁸ You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent,

⁹ when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

¹¹ Make vows to Yahweh your God, and fulfill them! Let all of his neighbors bring presents to him who is to be feared.

¹² He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth. For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph.

¹ My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

² In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn't get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

³ I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

⁴ You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can't speak.

⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

⁶ I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

⁷ "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

⁸ Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?" Selah.

¹⁰ Then I thought, "I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High."

¹¹ I will remember Yah's deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.

¹² I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings.

¹³ Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What God is great like God?

¹⁴ You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.

¹⁵ You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

¹⁶ The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.

¹⁷ The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.

¹⁸ The voice of your thunder was in the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

¹⁹ Your way was through the sea; your paths through the great waters. Your footsteps were not known.

²⁰ You led your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron. A contemplation by Asaph.

¹ Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

² I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

³ Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

⁴ We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

⁵ For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

⁶ that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

⁷ that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

⁸ and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

⁹ The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰ They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

¹¹ They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

¹² He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

¹³ He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

¹⁴ In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

¹⁵ He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

¹⁶ He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁷ Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

¹⁸ They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

¹⁹ Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰ Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

²¹ Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

²² because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

²³ Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.

²⁴ He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.