44 He turned their rivers into blood,

and they could not drink from their streams.p

45 He sent among them swarms of flies,q

which fed on them,

and frogs, which devastated them.r

46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.s

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.t

49 He sent his burning anger against them:

fury, indignation, and calamity—

a band of deadly messengers.B,u

50 He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.v

51 He struck all the firstbornw in Egypt,

the first progeny of the tents of Ham.x