4. Remember me, Adonai, when You show favor to Your people. Visit me with Your salvation,
5. so I may behold the prosperity of Your chosen ones, exult in the joy of Your nation, and give praise with Your inheritance.
6. We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have acted wickedly.
7. Our fathers in Egypt did not ponder Your wonders. Nor did they remember Your abundant lovingkindness, but rebelled by the sea— at the Sea of Reeds.
8. Yet He saved them for His Name’s sake, to make His mighty power known.
9. He rebuked the Sea of Reeds and it dried up, and He led them through the depths as through a wilderness.
10. So He saved them from the hand of those who hated them, redeemed them from the enemy’s hand.
11. The waters covered their adversaries— not one of them was left.
12. Then they believed His words. They were singing His praise.
13. How quickly they forgot His works, and would not wait for His counsel!
14. In the wilderness they craved ravenously, in the desert they tested God.
15. So He gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease among them.
16. Then they envied Moses in the camp, and also Aaron, the holy one of Adonai.
17. The earth opened up, swallowed Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
18. Also a fire blazed in their company, a flame consumed the wicked.
19. They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped a molten image.
20. Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a grass-eating ox.
21. They forgot God their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt—