15. So he gave them what they askedand sent a wasting disease against them.
16. In the camp they challenged Mosesand Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.
17. The earth opened and swallowed Dathan,it closed on the followers of Abiram.
18. Against their company the fire blazed;flames consumed the wicked.
19. At Horeb they fashioned a calf,worshiped a metal statue.
20. They exchanged their gloryfor the image of a grass-eating bull.
21. They forgot the God who had saved them,who had done great deeds in Egypt,
22. Amazing deeds in the land of Ham,fearsome deeds at the Red Sea.
23. He would have decreed their destruction,had not Moses, his chosen one,Withstood him in the breachto turn back his destroying anger.
24. Next they despised the beautiful land;they did not believe the promise.
25. In their tents they complained;they did not heed the voice of the Lord.
26. So with raised hand he sworehe would destroy them in the desert,
27. And scatter their descendants among the nations,disperse them in foreign lands.
28. They joined in the rites of Baal of Peor,ate food sacrificed to the dead.