19. you, in your great mercy, didn’t abandon them in the wilderness.The column of cloud continued to guide them on their journey during the day,and the column of lightning lit their path during the night.
20. You gave your good spirit to teach them.You didn’t withhold your manna from them,and you gave them water for their thirst.
21. You kept them alive for forty years—they lacked nothing in the wilderness!Their clothes didn’t wear out,and their feet didn’t swell.
22. You gave them kingdoms and peoples,and assigned to them every side.They took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbonand the land of King Og of Bashan.
23. You multiplied their descendants as the stars of heaven.You brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.
24. So the descendants went in and possessed the land.Before them, you subdued the Canaanites who inhabited the land.You also handed over to them their kings and the neighboring peoples,to do with as they wished.
25. They captured fortified cities and productive land,and took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things:Excavated cisterns, vineyards, olive orchards, and a great many fruit trees.They ate until they were satisfied and grew fat,and delighted themselves in your great goodness.
26. But they were disobedient, rebelled against you,and turned their back on your Instruction.They killed your prophets who had warned them so that they might return to you.They held you in great contempt.
27. Therefore, you handed them over to the power of their enemies who made them suffer.But when they cried out to you in their suffering,you heard them from heaven.Because you are merciful,you gave them saviors who saved them from the power of their enemies.