4. [Earnestly] remember me, O Lord, when You favor Your people! O visit me also when You deliver them, and grant me Your salvation!–
5. That I may see and share the welfare of Your chosen ones, that I may rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, that I may glory with Your heritage.
6. We have sinned, as did also our fathers; we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. [Lev. 26:40-42.]
7. Our fathers in Egypt understood not nor appreciated Your miracles; they did not [earnestly] remember the multitude of Your mercies nor imprint Your loving-kindness [on their hearts], but they were rebellious and provoked the Lord at the sea, even at the Red Sea. [Exod. 14:21.]
8. Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake [to prove the righteousness of the divine character], that He might make His mighty power known.
9. He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it dried up; so He led them through the depths as through a pastureland. [Exod. 14:21.]
10. And He saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the [Egyptian] enemy. [Exod. 14:30.]
11. And the waters covered their adversaries; not one of them was left. [Exod. 14:27, 28; 15:5.]
12. Then [Israel] believed His words [trusting in, relying on them]; they sang His praise.
13. But they hastily forgot His works; they did not [earnestly] wait for His plans [to develop] regarding them,
14. But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted and tried to restrain God [with their insistent desires] in the desert. [Num. 11:4.]
15. And He gave them their request, but sent leanness into their souls and [thinned their numbers by] disease and death. [Ps. 78:29-31.]
16. They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron [the high priest], the holy one of the Lord. [Num. 16:1-32.]
17. Therefore the earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and closed over the company of Abiram. [Num. 16:31, 32.]
18. And a fire broke out in their company; the flame burned up the wicked. [Num. 16:35, 46.]