1. She directed their works in the hands of the holy prophet.
2. They made a path through desolate areas, which were uninhabited, and set up their homes in remote places.
3. They stood firm against the enemy, and vindicated themselves from their adversaries.
4. They thirsted, and they called upon you, and water was given them out of the deepest rock, and respite from thirst out of the hard stone.
5. For through water, their enemies had been punished, by the corruption of their drinking water; and so, among them, when the sons of Israel lacked the abundance they would have had, their enemies rejoiced;
6. yet though water, when they were in need, it turned out well for them.
7. For instead of a fountain, even everlasting in flow, you gave human blood to the unjust,
8. and while they would be crushed into disgrace because of the murdering of infants, you unexpectedly gave your own abundant water,
9. revealing through the thirst, which occurred at that time, how you would exalt your own and would kill their adversaries.
10. For when they were being tested, and even when receiving merciful correction, they knew in what way, when your wrath judged the impious, they would suffer torments.
11. For these, advising like a father, you approved; but the others, interrogating like a severe king, you condemned.
12. For whether absent or present, they were tortured alike.
13. For they had received double: weariness and groaning in the remembrance of things past.
14. For when they paid attention to their punishments, to attend to their own benefit, they called to mind the Lord, admiring the end result.
15. For though they showed scorn by throwing out distorted statements, in the end they were amazed at the result, but this is not the same as thirsting for justice.