| New Living Translation | Christian Standard Bible |
| 1O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying, | 1My people, hear my instruction; listen to the words from my mouth. |
| 2for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past— | 2I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past-- |
| 3stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us. | 3things we have heard and known and that our fathers have passed down to us. |
| 4We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD, about his power and his mighty wonders. | 4We will not hide them from their children, but will tell a future generation the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, his might, and the wondrous works he has performed. |
| 5For he issued his laws to Jacob; he gave his instructions to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children, | 5He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children |
| 6so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born— and they in turn will teach their own children. | 6so that a future generation--children yet to be born--might know. They were to rise and tell their children |
| 7So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands. | 7so that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God's works, but keep his commands. |
| 8Then they will not be like their ancestors— stubborn, rebellious, and unfaithful, refusing to give their hearts to God. | 8Then they would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God. |
| 9The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled on the day of battle. | 9The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle. |
| 10They did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his instructions. | 10They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law. |
| 11They forgot what he had done— the great wonders he had shown them, | 11They forgot what he had done, the wondrous works he had shown them. |
| 12the miracles he did for their ancestors on the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt. | 12He worked wonders in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan. |
| 13For he divided the sea and led them through, making the water stand up like walls! | 13He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall. |
| 14In the daytime he led them by a cloud, and all night by a pillar of fire. | 14He led them with a cloud by day and with a fiery light throughout the night. |
| 15He split open the rocks in the wilderness to give them water, as from a gushing spring. | 15He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the depths. |
| 16He made streams pour from the rock, making the waters flow down like a river! | 16He brought streams out of the stone and made water flow down like rivers. |
| 17Yet they kept on sinning against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert. | 17But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. |
| 18They stubbornly tested God in their hearts, demanding the foods they craved. | 18They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved. |
| 19They even spoke against God himself, saying, “God can’t give us food in the wilderness. | 19They spoke against God, saying, "Is God able to provide food in the wilderness? |
| 20Yes, he can strike a rock so water gushes out, but he can’t give his people bread and meat.” | 20Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out; torrents overflowed. But can he also provide bread or furnish meat for his people?" |
| 21When the LORD heard them, he was furious. The fire of his wrath burned against Jacob. Yes, his anger rose against Israel, | 21Therefore, the LORD heard and became furious; then fire broke out against Jacob, and anger flared up against Israel |
| 22for they did not believe God or trust him to care for them. | 22because they did not believe God or rely on his salvation. |
| 23But he commanded the skies to open; he opened the doors of heaven. | 23He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven. |
| 24He rained down manna for them to eat; he gave them bread from heaven. | 24He rained manna for them to eat; he gave them grain from heaven. |
| 25They ate the food of angels! God gave them all they could hold. | 25People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food. |
| 26He released the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power. | 26He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by his might. |
| 27He rained down meat as thick as dust— birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore! | 27He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas. |
| 28He caused the birds to fall within their camp and all around their tents. | 28He made them fall in the camp, all around the tents. |
| 29The people ate their fill. He gave them what they craved. | 29The people ate and were completely satisfied, for he gave them what they craved. |
| 30But before they satisfied their craving, while the meat was yet in their mouths, | 30Before they had turned from what they craved, while the food was still in their mouths, |
| 31the anger of God rose against them, and he killed their strongest men. He struck down the finest of Israel’s young men. | 31God's anger flared up against them, and he killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel's fit young men. |
| 32But in spite of this, the people kept sinning. Despite his wonders, they refused to trust him. | 32Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe his wondrous works. |
| 33So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror. | 33He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster. |
| 34When God began killing them, they finally sought him. They repented and took God seriously. | 34When he killed some of them, the rest began to seek him; they repented and searched for God. |
| 35Then they remembered that God was their rock, that God Most High was their redeemer. | 35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer. |
| 36But all they gave him was lip service; they lied to him with their tongues. | 36But they deceived him with their mouths, they lied to him with their tongues, |
| 37Their hearts were not loyal to him. They did not keep his covenant. | 37their hearts were insincere toward him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant. |
| 38Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury! | 38Yet he was compassionate; he atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often turned his anger aside and did not unleash all his wrath. |
| 39For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns. | 39He remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return. |
| 40Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland. | 40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert. |
| 41Again and again they tested God’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel. | 41They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel. |
| 42They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies. | 42They did not remember his power shown on the day he redeemed them from the foe, |
| 43They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan. | 43when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt and his wonders in the territory of Zoan. |
| 44For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams. | 44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams. |
| 45He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them. | 45He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them. |
| 46He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts. | 46He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust. |
| 47He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet. | 47He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood. |
| 48He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning. | 48He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts. |
| 49He loosed on them his fierce anger— all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels. | 49He sent his burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity--a band of deadly messengers. |
| 50He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives but ravaged them with the plague. | 50He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague. |
| 51He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family, the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt. | 51He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham. |
| 52But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness. | 52He led his people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness. |
| 53He kept them safe so they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies. | 53He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies. |
| 54He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them. | 54He brought them to his holy territory, to the mountain his right hand acquired. |
| 55He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes. | 55He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. |
| 56But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High. They did not obey his laws. | 56But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep his decrees. |
| 57They turned back and were as faithless as their parents. They were as undependable as a crooked bow. | 57They treacherously turned away like their fathers; they became warped like a faulty bow. |
| 58They angered God by building shrines to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols. | 58They enraged him with their high places and provoked his jealousy with their carved images. |
| 59When God heard them, he was very angry, and he completely rejected Israel. | 59God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel. |
| 60Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people. | 60He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he resided among mankind. |
| 61He allowed the Ark of his might to be captured; he surrendered his glory into enemy hands. | 61He gave up his strength to captivity and his splendor to the hand of a foe. |
| 62He gave his people over to be butchered by the sword, because he was so angry with his own people—his special possession. | 62He surrendered his people to the sword because he was enraged with his heritage. |
| 63Their young men were killed by fire; their young women died before singing their wedding songs. | 63Fire consumed his chosen young men, and his young women had no wedding songs. |
| 64Their priests were slaughtered, and their widows could not mourn their deaths. | 64His priests fell by the sword, and the widows could not lament. |
| 65Then the Lord rose up as though waking from sleep, like a warrior aroused from a drunken stupor. | 65The Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine. |
| 66He routed his enemies and sent them to eternal shame. | 66He beat back his foes; he gave them lasting disgrace. |
| 67But he rejected Joseph’s descendants; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim. | 67He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim. |
| 68He chose instead the tribe of Judah, and Mount Zion, which he loved. | 68He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved. |
| 69There he built his sanctuary as high as the heavens, as solid and enduring as the earth. | 69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever. |
| 70He chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens. | 70He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens; |
| 71He took David from tending the ewes and lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob’s descendants— God’s own people, Israel. | 71he brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over his people Jacob--over Israel, his inheritance. |
| 72He cared for them with a true heart and led them with skillful hands. | 72He shepherded them with a pure heart and guided them with his skillful hands. |
| Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. | The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. |
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