Psalm 53:2-81:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁹ The Ephraimite archers turned back
on the day of battle.^(RG)
10 They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by his law.^(RH)
11 They forgot what he had done,
the wondrous works he had shown them.^(RI)
12 He worked wonders in the sight of their ancestors
in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan.^(RJ)
13 He split the sea and brought them across;
the water stood firm like a wall.^(RK)
14 He led them with a cloud by day
and with a fiery light throughout the night.^(RL)
15 He split rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.^(RM)
16 He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.^(RN)

¹⁷ But they continued to sin against him,
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.^(RO)
18 They deliberately^[bw] tested God,
demanding the food they craved.^(RP)
19 They spoke against God, saying,
‘Is God able to provide food in the wilderness?
²⁰ Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out;
torrents overflowed.^(RQ)
But can he also provide bread
or furnish meat for his people? ’^(RR)
21 Therefore, the Lord heard and became furious;
then fire broke out against Jacob,
and anger flared up against Israel^(RS)
22 because they did not believe God
or rely on his salvation.^(RT)
23 He gave a command to the clouds above
and opened the doors of heaven.^(RU)
24 He rained manna for them to eat;
he gave them grain from heaven.^(RV)
25 People^[bx] ate the bread of angels.^[by]
He sent them an abundant supply of food.^(RW)
26 He made the east wind blow in the skies
and drove the south wind by his might.^(RX)
27 He rained meat on them like dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the seas.
²⁸ He made them fall in the camp,
all around the tents.^(RY)
29 The people ate and were completely satisfied,
for he gave them what they craved.^(RZ)
30 Before they had turned from what they craved,
while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹ God’s anger flared up against them,
and he killed some of their best men.
He struck down Israel’s fit young men.^(SA)

³² Despite all this, they kept sinning
and did not believe his wondrous works.^(SB)
33 He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.^(SC)
34 When he killed some of them,
the rest began to seek him;
they repented and searched for God.^(SD)
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their Redeemer.^(SE)
36 But they deceived him with their mouths,
they lied to him with their tongues,^(SF)
37 their hearts were insincere towards him,
and they were unfaithful to his covenant.^(SG)
38 Yet he was compassionate;
he atoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them.
He often turned his anger aside
and did not unleash^[bz] all his wrath.^(SH)
39 He remembered that they were only flesh,
a wind that passes and does not return.^(SI)

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him
in the wilderness
and grieved him in the desert.
⁴¹ They constantly tested God^(SJ)
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.^(SK)
42 They did not remember his power shown
on the day he redeemed them from the foe,^(SL)
43 when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt
and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.^(SM)
44 He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.^(SN)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies,^(SO)
which fed on them,
and frogs, which devastated them.^(SP)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labour to the locust.^(SQ)
47 He killed their vines with hail
and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.
⁴⁸ He handed over their livestock to hail
and their cattle to lightning bolts.^(SR)
49 He sent his burning anger against them:
fury, indignation, and calamity –
a band of deadly messengers.^[ca](SS)
50 He cleared a path for his anger.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.^(ST)
51 He struck all the firstborn^(SU) in Egypt,
the first progeny of the tents of Ham.^(SV)
52 He led his people out like sheep
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.^(SW)
53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.^(SX)
54 He brought them to his holy territory,
to the mountain his right hand acquired.^(SY)
55 He drove out nations before them.^(SZ)
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.^(TA)

⁵⁶ But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep his decrees.^(TB)
57 They treacherously turned away like their ancestors;
they became warped like a faulty bow.^(TC)
58 They enraged him with their high places
and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.^(TD)
59 God heard and became furious;
he completely rejected Israel.^(TE)
60 He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where he resided among mankind.^(TF)
61 He gave up his strength to captivity
and his splendour to the hand of a foe.^(TG)
62 He surrendered his people to the sword
because he was enraged with his heritage.^(TH)
63 Fire consumed his chosen young men,
and his young women had no wedding songs.^[cb](TI)
64 His priests fell by the sword,
and the widows could not lament.^(TJ)

⁶⁵ The Lord awoke as if from sleep,
like a warrior from the effects of wine.^(TK)
66 He beat back his foes;
he gave them lasting disgrace.^(TL)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
⁶⁸ He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.^(TM)
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established for ever.^(TN)
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;^(TO)
71 he brought him from tending ewes
to be shepherd over his people Jacob –
over Israel, his inheritance.^(TP)
72 He shepherded them with a pure heart
and guided them with his skilful hands.^(TQ)