12. Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.
13. They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
14. but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.
15. He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul.
16. They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
17. The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
18. A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.
19. They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped a molten image.
20. Thus they exchanged their glory for an image of a bull that eats grass.
21. They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,
22. Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.
23. Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.