4. When they thirsted, they called upon you,and water was given them from the sheer rock,a quenching of their thirst from the hard stone.
5. For by the things through which their foes were punishedthey in their need were benefited.
6. Instead of a river’s perennial source,troubled with impure blood
7. as a rebuke to the decree for the slaying of infants,You gave them abundant water beyond their hope,
8. after you had shown by the thirst they experiencedhow you punished their adversaries.
9. For when they had been tried, though only mildly chastised,they recognized how the wicked, condemned in anger, were being tormented.
10. You tested your own people, admonishing them as a father;but as a stern king you probed and condemned the wicked.
11. Those near and far were equally afflicted: