6. We have sinned, even as our ancestors did;we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
7. When our ancestors were in Egypt,they gave no thought to your miracles;they did not remember your many kindnesses,and they rebelled by the sea, the Red Sea.
8. Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,to make his mighty power known.
9. He rebuked the Red Sea, and it dried up;he led them through the depths as through a desert.
10. He saved them from the hand of the foe;from the hand of the enemy he redeemed them.
11. The waters covered their adversaries;not one of them survived.
12. Then they believed his promisesand sang his praise.
13. But they soon forgot what he had doneand did not wait for his plan to unfold.
14. In the desert they gave in to their craving;in the wilderness they put God to the test.
15. So he gave them what they asked for,but sent a wasting disease among them.
16. In the camp they grew envious of Mosesand of Aaron, who was consecrated to the Lord.
17. The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;it buried the company of Abiram.
18. Fire blazed among their followers;a flame consumed the wicked.
19. At Horeb they made a calfand worshipped an idol cast from metal.
20. They exchanged their glorious Godfor an image of a bull, which eats grass.
21. They forgot the God who saved them,who had done great things in Egypt,
22. miracles in the land of Hamand awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
23. So he said he would destroy them –had not Moses, his chosen one,stood in the breach before himto keep his wrath from destroying them.
24. Then they despised the pleasant land;they did not believe his promise.