1<> O my people, listen to my teaching. Open your ears to what I am saying,
2for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past––
3stories we have heard and know, stories our ancestors handed down to us.
4We will not hide these truths from our children but will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD. We will tell of his power and the mighty miracles he did.
5For he issued his decree to Jacob; he gave his law to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children,
6so the next generation might know them––even the children not yet born––that they in turn might teach their children.
7So each generation can set its hope anew on God, remembering his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.
8Then they will not be like their ancestors––stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God.
9The warriors of Ephraim, though fully armed, turned their backs and fled when the day of battle came.
10They did not keep God’s covenant, and they refused to live by his law.
11They forgot what he had done––the wonderful miracles he had shown them,
12the miracles he did for their ancestors in Egypt, on the plain of Zoan.
13For he divided the sea before them and led them through! The water stood up like walls beside them!
14In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and at night by a pillar of fire.
15He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them plenty of water, as from a gushing spring.
16He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river!
17Yet they kept on with their sin, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18They willfully tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved.
19They even spoke against God himself, saying, "God can’t give us food in the desert.
20Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out, but he can’t give his people bread and meat."
21When the LORD heard them, he was angry. The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob. Yes, his anger rose against Israel,
22for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them.
23But he commanded the skies to open––he opened the doors of heaven––
24and rained down manna for them to eat. He gave them bread from heaven.
25They ate the food of angels! God gave them all they could hold.
26He released the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power.
27He rained down meat as thick as dust––birds as plentiful as the sands along the seashore!
28He caused the birds to fall within their camp and all around their tents.
29The people ate their fill. He gave them what they wanted.
30But before they finished eating this food they had craved, while the meat was yet in their mouths,
31the anger of God rose against them, and he killed their strongest men; he struck down the finest of Israel’s young men.
32But in spite of this, the people kept on sinning. They refused to believe in his miracles.
33So he ended their lives in failure and gave them years of terror.
34When God killed some of them, the rest finally sought him. They repented and turned to God.
35Then they remembered that God was their rock, that their redeemer was the Most High.
36But they followed him only with their words; they lied to him with their tongues.
37Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant.
38Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and didn’t destroy them all. Many a time he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury!
39For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone in a moment like a breath of wind, never to return.
40Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved his heart in the wilderness.
41Again and again they tested God’s patience and frustrated the Holy One of Israel.
42They forgot about his power and how he rescued them from their enemies.
43They forgot his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan.
44For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams.
45He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them.
46He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts.
47He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamores with sleet.
48He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49He loosed on them his fierce anger––all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.
50He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but handed them over to the plague.
51He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family, the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.
52But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness.
53He kept them safe so they were not afraid; but the sea closed in upon their enemies.
54He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them.
55He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.
56Yet though he did all this for them, they continued to test his patience. They rebelled against the Most High and refused to follow his decrees.
57They turned back and were as faithless as their parents had been. They were as useless as a crooked bow.
58They made God angry by building altars to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.
59When God heard them, he was very angry, and he rejected Israel completely.
60Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people.
61He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands.
62He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword, because he was so angry with his own people––his special possession.
63Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs.
64Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths.
65Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep, like a mighty man aroused from a drunken stupor.
66He routed his enemies and sent them to eternal shame.
67But he rejected Joseph’s descendants; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
68He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.
69There he built his towering sanctuary, as solid and enduring as the earth itself.
70He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens.
71He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants––God’s own people, Israel.
72He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands.
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