Psalm 78:42–55

⁴²They did not remember his power— 

the day he freed them from their oppressor, 

⁴³when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt, 

his wonders in the fields of Zoan. 

⁴⁴He turned their rivers into blood 

so that they could not drink from their streams. 

⁴⁵He sent a swarm of flies that bit them 

and frogs that ruined them. 

⁴⁶He gave their crops to grasshoppers 

and their produce to locusts. 

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail 

and their fig trees with frost. 

⁴⁸He let the hail strike their cattle 

and bolts of lightning strike their livestock. 

⁴⁹He sent his burning anger, rage, fury, and hostility against them. 

He sent an army of destroying angels. 

⁵⁰He cleared a path for his anger. 

He did not spare them. 

He let the plague take their lives. 

⁵¹He slaughtered every firstborn in Egypt, 

the ones born in the tents of Ham when their fathers were young. 

⁵²But he led his own people out like sheep 

and guided them like a flock through the wilderness. 

⁵³He led them safely. 

They had no fear while the sea covered their enemies. 

⁵⁴He brought them into his holy land, 

to this mountain that his power had won. 

⁵⁵He forced nations out of their way 

and gave them the land of the nations as their inheritance. 

He settled the tribes of Israel in their own tents.