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 promises and sang his praise.
13. But they soon forgot what he had done and 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 Moses and 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 calf and worshiped an idol cast from metal.
20. They exchanged their glorious God for 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 Ham and 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 him to keep his wrath from destroying them.
24. Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe his promise.