Psalm 78:43–68

⁴³How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan; ⁴⁴And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink; ⁴⁵He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them; ⁴⁶And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust; ⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones; ⁴⁸And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts. ⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, —a mission of angels of woes. ⁵⁰He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; ⁵¹And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham. ⁵²And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock; ⁵³And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies. ⁵⁴And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased; ⁵⁵And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. ⁵⁶But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies, ⁵⁷And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow. ⁵⁸And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. ⁵⁹God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: ⁶⁰And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men, ⁶¹And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor; ⁶²And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance: ⁶³The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song; ⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation. ⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine; ⁶⁶And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach. ⁶⁷And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim, ⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;