Psalm 78:43–68

^43fHow he had wrought his ^gsigns in Egypt,

And his ^ghwonders in ⁱthe field of Zoan:

⁴⁴And ^khad turned their rivers into blood;

And their ^lfloods, that they could not drink.

⁴⁵He sent ^mdivers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;

And ⁿfrogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave also their increase unto ^othe caterpillar,

And their labour unto ^pthe locust.

^47qHe destroyed their vines with hail,

And their ^rsycomore trees with frost.

⁴⁸He gave up their cattle also to the hail,

And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,

Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,

^sBy sending evil angels among them.

⁵⁰He made a way to his anger;

He spared not their soul from death,

But ^tgave their life over to the pestilence;

⁵¹And ^usmote all the firstborn in Egypt;

^xThe chief of their strength in the tabernacles ^yof Ham:

⁵²But ^zmade his own people to go forth ^alike sheep,

And ^zguided them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³And ^bhe ^aled them on safely, so that they feared not:

But ^cthe sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them to the border of his ^dsanctuary,

Even to this ^demountain, which his right hand had purchased.

^55fHe cast out the heathen also before them,

And ^gdivided them an inheritance by ^hline,

And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶ⁱYet they ^ktempted and ^lprovoked the most high God,

And kept not his testimonies:

⁵⁷But ^mturned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:

They were turned aside ⁿlike a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸For they ^oprovoked him to anger with their ^phigh places,

And ^qmoved him to jealousy with their ^rgraven images.

⁵⁹When God heard this, he ^swas wroth,

And greatly ^tabhorred Israel:

^60uSo that he forsook the ^vtabernacle of ^wShiloh,

^xThe tent which he ^uplaced among men;

⁶¹And delivered ^yhis strength into ^zcaptivity,

And his glory into the enemy’s hand.

⁶²He ^agave his people over also ^bunto the sword;

And ^cwas wroth with his inheritance.

⁶³The fire consumed their young men;

And their maidens were not given to marriage.

^64dTheir priests fell by the sword;

^eAnd their widows ^fmade no lamentation.

⁶⁵Then the Lord ^gawaked as one out of sleep,

And ^hlike a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

⁶⁶And ⁱhe smote his enemies in the hinder parts:

He put them to a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷Moreover he ^jrefused the tabernacle of ^jjJoseph,

And chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah,

The mount Zion ^kwhich he loved.