Psalm 78:40–55

40 How often they rebelled against Him

in the wilderness

and grieved Him in the desert.

41 They constantly tested God g

and provoked the Holy One of Israel. h

42 They did not remember His power shown

on the day He redeemed them from the foe, i

43 when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt

and His wonders in the region of Zoan. j

44 He turned their rivers into blood,

and they could not drink from their streams. k

45 He sent among them swarms of flies, l

which fed on them,

and frogs, which devastated them. m

46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar

and the fruit of their labor to the locust. n

47 He killed their vines with hail

and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.

48 He handed over their livestock to hail

and their cattle to lightning bolts. o

49 He sent His burning anger against them:

fury, indignation, and calamity—

a band of deadly messengers. p q

50 He cleared a path for His anger.

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague. r

51 He struck all the firstborn s in Egypt,

the first progeny of the tents of Ham. t u

52 He led His people out like sheep

and guided them like a flock in the wilderness. v

53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid;

but the sea covered their enemies. w

54 He brought them to His holy land,

to the mountain His right hand acquired. x

55 He drove out nations before them. y

He apportioned their inheritance by lot

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. z