Psalm 78:42–55

⁴²They forgot his great power

and the day when he saved them from their enemies

⁴³and performed his mighty acts and miracles

in the plain of Zoan in the land of Egypt.

^44*He turned the rivers into blood,

and the Egyptians had no water to drink.

^45*He sent flies among them, that tormented them,

and frogs that ruined their land.

^46*He sent locusts to eat their crops

and to destroy their fields.

^47*He killed their grapevines with hail

and their fig trees with frost.

^48*He killed their cattle with hail and their flocks with lightning.^v

⁴⁹He caused them great distress

by pouring out his anger and fierce rage,

which came as messengers of death.

⁵⁰He did not restrain his anger

or spare their lives,

but killed them with a plague.

^51*He killed the firstborn sons

of all the families of Egypt.

^52*Then he led his people out like a shepherd

and guided them through the desert.

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

but the sea came rolling over their enemies.

^54*He brought them to his holy land,

to the mountains which he himself conquered.

^55*He drove out the inhabitants as his people advanced;

he divided their land among the tribes of Israel

and gave their homes to his people.