exerts itself to punish the unrighteous,
and in kindness relaxes on behalf of those who trust in you.
[25] Therefore at that time also, changed into all forms,
it served your all-nourishing bounty,
according to the desire of those who had need,
[26] so that your sons, whom you did love, O Lord, might learn
that it is not the production of crops that feeds man,
but that your word preserves those who trust in you.
[27] For what was not destroyed by fire
was melted when simply warmed by a fleeting ray of the sun,
[28] to make it known that one must rise before
the sun to give you thanks,
and must pray to you at the dawning of the light;
[29] for the hope of an ungrateful man will melt like wintry frost,
and flow away like waste water.
IMAGE: James Tissot, The Gathering of the Manna (c. 1896)
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