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The Israelites Receive Manna

²⁰ Instead of these things you gave your people food of angels,
and without their toil you supplied them from heaven with bread ready to eat,
providing every pleasure and suited to every taste.
²¹ For your sustenance manifested your sweetness towards your children;
and the bread, ministering^* to the desire of the one who took it,
was changed to suit everyone’s liking.
²² Snow and ice withstood fire without melting,
so that they might know that the crops of their enemies
were being destroyed by the fire that blazed in the hail
and flashed in the showers of rain;
²³ whereas the fire,^* in order that the righteous might be fed,
even forgot its native power.

²⁴ For creation, serving you who made it,
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 children, whom you loved, O Lord, might learn
that it is not the production of crops that feeds humankind
but that your word sustains those who trust in you.