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B

We have sinned like our ancestors;(A)
    we have done wrong and are guilty.

I

Our ancestors in Egypt
    did not attend to your wonders.
They did not remember your manifold mercy;
    they defied the Most High at the Red Sea.

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II

13 But they soon forgot all he had done;
    they had no patience for his plan.
14 In the desert they gave in to their cravings,
    tempted God in the wasteland.(A)

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21 They forgot the God who had saved them,
    who had done great deeds in Egypt,(A)
22 Amazing deeds in the land of Ham,
    fearsome deeds at the Red Sea.
23 He would have decreed their destruction,
    had not Moses, his chosen one,
Withstood him in the breach[a]
    to turn back his destroying anger.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 106:23 Withstood him in the breach: the image is that of Moses standing in a narrow break made in the wall to keep anyone from entering.