²⁰ You gave your good Spirit^(A) to instruct^(B) them. You did not withhold your manna^(C) from their mouths, and you gave them water^(D) for their thirst. ²¹ For forty years^(E) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,^(F) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.^(G)

²² “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon^[a](H) king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.^{(I) 23} You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky,^(J) and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess. ²⁴ Their children went in and took possession of the land.^(K) You subdued^(L) before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased. ²⁵ They captured fortified cities and fertile land;^(M) they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things,^(N) wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished;^(O) they reveled in your great goodness.^(P)

²⁶ “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.^(Q) They killed^(R) your prophets,^(S) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.^{(T) 27} So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies,^(U) who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion^(V) you gave them deliverers,^(W) who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.