1. She directed their works in the hands of the holy prophet.
2. They made a path through desolate areas, which were uninhabited, and set up their homes in remote places.
3. They stood firm against the enemy, and vindicated themselves from their adversaries.
4. They thirsted, and they called upon you, and water was given them out of the deepest rock, and respite from thirst out of the hard stone.
5. For through water, their enemies had been punished, by the corruption of their drinking water; and so, among them, when the sons of Israel lacked the abundance they would have had, their enemies rejoiced;
6. yet though water, when they were in need, it turned out well for them.
7. For instead of a fountain, even everlasting in flow, you gave human blood to the unjust,
8. and while they would be crushed into disgrace because of the murdering of infants, you unexpectedly gave your own abundant water,