It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;

我曾在旷野干旱之地认识你。

我曾在旷野，就是那干旱之地认识你。

我曾在旷野，就是那干旱之地认识你。

我曾在干旱的旷野照顾你们，

我曾在旷野，在干旱之地，认识你。

我曾在曠野乾旱之地認識你。

我曾在曠野，就是那乾旱之地認識你。

我曾在曠野，就是那乾旱之地認識你。

我曾在乾旱的曠野照顧你們，

我曾在曠野，在乾旱之地，認識你。

在曠野是我同你知交，在亢旱之地是我牧養了你。

我在曠野旱乾之地識爾、

昔在曠野無水之地、我垂顧爾、

昔在曠野、旱乾無水之地、我垂顧爾、

I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of burning heat.

I took care of you in the desert. It was a land of burning heat.

I took care of you in the wilderness, in that dry and thirsty land.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

I cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.

I knew you in the wilderness, In the land of great drought.

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

“ He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,

For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.

I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul,

When my spirit faints within me, you know my way! In the path where I walk they have hidden a trap for me.

for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

“ Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,“ I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

God saw the people of Israel— and God knew.

They did not say,‘ Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.