Psalm 78:43–68

^43zwhen he performed his ^asigns in Egypt

and his ^bmarvels in ^cthe fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴He ^dturned their rivers to blood,

so that they could not drink of their streams.

⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of ^eflies, which devoured them,

and ^ffrogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to ^gthe destroying locust

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with ^hhail

and their sycamores with frost.

⁴⁸He gave over their ⁱcattle to the hail

and their flocks to thunderbolts.

⁴⁹He let loose on them his burning anger,

wrath, indignation, and distress,

a company of ^jdestroying angels.

⁵⁰He made a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death,

but gave their lives over to the plague.

⁵¹He struck down every ^kfirstborn in Egypt,

the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^lHam.

⁵²Then he led out his people ^mlike sheep

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³ⁿHe led them in safety, so that they ^owere not afraid,

but ^pthe sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them to his ^qholy land,

^rto the mountain which his right hand had ^swon.

⁵⁵He ^tdrove out nations before them;

he ^uapportioned them for a possession

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they ^vtested and ^wrebelled against the Most High God

and did not keep his testimonies,

⁵⁷but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;

they twisted like ^xa deceitful bow.

⁵⁸For they ^yprovoked him to anger with their ^zhigh places;

they ^amoved him to jealousy with their ^bidols.

⁵⁹When God heard, he was full of ^cwrath,

and he utterly rejected Israel.

⁶⁰He ^dforsook his dwelling at ^eShiloh,

the tent where he dwelt among mankind,

⁶¹and delivered his ^fpower to captivity,

his ^gglory to the hand of the foe.

⁶²He ^hgave his people over to the sword

and ⁱvented his wrath on his heritage.

^63jFire devoured their young men,

and their young women had no ^kmarriage song.

⁶⁴Their ^lpriests fell by the sword,

and their ^mwidows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵Then the Lord ⁿawoke as from sleep,

like a strong man shouting because of wine.

⁶⁶And he ^oput his adversaries to rout;

he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷He rejected the tent of ^pJoseph;

he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸but he chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion, which he ^qloves.