1 Wisdom brought success to the people of Israel through a holy prophet.
2 They travelled across a desert where no one lived and camped in places where no human being had ever been.
3 They stood up to their enemies and fought them off.
4 When your people grew thirsty, they called to you, Lord, and you gave them water flowing out of solid rock.
5 The disasters that punished the Egyptians saved your people when they were in trouble.
6-8 Because those enemies decreed that the babies of your people should be killed, you stirred up the sources of their ever-flowing river and made it foul with blood.In the desert you let your people go thirsty, to give them a taste of how you had punished their enemies. And then, when they least expected it, you gave them plenty of water.