I gave you light in a pillar of fire, and great wonders have I done among you; yet have you forgotten me, says Yah-Who-Ah. Thus says the Almighty Yah-Who-Ah, The quails were as a token to you; I gave you tents for your safeguard: nevertheless you murmured there, And triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies, but ever to this day do you yet murmur. Where are the benefits that I have done for you? when you were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, did you not cry unto me, Saying, Why have you brought us into this wilderness to kill us? it had been better for us to have served the Egyptians, than to die in this wilderness. Then had I pity upon your mournings, and gave you manna to eat; so you did eat angels’ bread. When you were thirsty, did I not cleave the rock, and waters flowed out to your fill? for the heat I covered you with the leaves of the trees. I divided among you a fruitful land, I cast out the Canaanites, the Pherezites, and the Philistines, before you: what shall I yet do more for you? says Yah-Who-Ah. Thus says the Almighty Yah-Who-Ah, When you were in the wilderness, in the river of the Amorites, being athirst, and blaspheming my name, I gave you not fire for your blasphemies, but cast a tree in the water, and made the river sweet. What shall I do unto you, O Jacob? you, Juda, would not obey me: I will turn me to other nations, and unto those will I give my name, that they may keep my statutes. Seeing you have forsaken me, I will forsake you also; when you desire me to be gracious unto you, I shall have no mercy upon you. Whensoever you shall call upon me, I will not hear you: for you have defiled your hands with blood, and your feet are swift to commit manslaughter.
