I rescued you from your chains
brought you far from your prison
you went out with joy and sang
together we would be one
but then the trials came
the storms closed in around you
you thought that I was to blame
bitterness was all you knew

Chorus
you wandered through the wilderness
you grumbled and complained
you hungered and your thirsted
and cried out in your pain
I listened to your grumbling
I heard your hunger rumbling
I knew you in the wilderness
in the land of thirstiness

I watched you as you wandered
tempered the storms that tossed you
when you wept alone I heard
when you ran I followed you
blinded by tears you couldn't see
you thought I'd left you long ago
I was with you in your agony
oh I love you, don't you know?