What will you talk to your soul about and what will you ponder over me? Direct your supplication to God, for we will still praise Him. As in the beginning and in the years that have passed, we will serve and be saved from the nations, salvation that no other god can offer. Therefore, direct your supplication, my soul, to God.
The assembly of Israel says: I am jealous and aggrieved when I see the tranquility of the nations, and I am angry, but what do you care? And I direct my supplication to God. Therefore, I remember you from the land of Jordan. I remember when I crossed the Jordan what you did for us, even though we angered you in Shittim, you performed miracles for us when you brought us across the Jordan.
It is written in Joshua 3: "And Joshua rose up early in the morning and they moved from Shittim." I remember the troubles and miracles you did for us, and we think of other things, as it says in Numbers 14: "The Lord is not able." "Where is His strength?" and in Psalm 87: "This one was born there." Is there a sickness above that does not change its position?
He said to them, the Holy One, blessed be He, in Isaiah 59: "Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither His ear heavy that it cannot hear, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God." Therefore, I remember you from the land of Jordan and from the heights of Hermon. Hermon is Sinai, and the heights of Mitzar is the Temple, as it says in Psalms 42: "Deep calleth unto deep."
And you did not do for us the miracles that you did for them. And what have you done for me? All your crises and waves have passed over me. And if you say that I have no merit, did I not command them to slaughter the Passover lamb on the night of the exodus from Egypt? They slaughtered it and were saved. And so it says: "In the daytime, the Lord commands His mercy."...