Psalm 78:33–72

33  Therefore itheir days did he consume in kvanity,

And their years in trouble.

34  When he slew them, then they lsought him:

And they lreturned and lminquired early after God.

35  And they remembered that nGod was their rock,

And the high God otheir redeemer.

36  Nevertheless they did pflatter him with their mouth,

And they qlied unto him with their tongues.

37  For rtheir heart was not sright with him,

Neither were they hstedfast in his covenant.

38  But he, being tfull of compassion, uforgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not:

Yea, many a time turned he his anger away,

And did not stir up all his wrath.

39  For whe remembered that they were but xflesh;

wyA wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

40  How oft did they ||provoke him in the wilderness,

And zgrieve him in athe desert!

41  Yea, they turned back and btempted God,

And climited the dHoly One of Israel.

42  They eremembered not his hand,

Nor the day when he delivered them ||from the enemy.

43  fHow he had †wrought his gsigns in Egypt,

And his ghwonders in ithe field of Zoan:

44  And khad turned their rivers into blood;

And their lfloods, that they could not drink.

45  He sent mdivers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;

And nfrogs, which destroyed them.

46  He gave also their increase unto othe caterpiller,

And their labour unto pthe locust.

47  qHe †destroyed their vines with hail,

And their rsycomore trees with ||frost.

48  †He gave up their cattle also to the hail,

And their flocks to ||hot thunderbolts.

49  He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger,

Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,

sBy sending evil angels among them.

50  †He made a way to his anger;

He spared not their soul from death,

But tgave ||their life over to the pestilence;

51  And usmote all the firstborn in Egypt;

xThe chief of their strength in the tabernacles yof Ham:

52  But zmade his own people to go forth alike sheep,

And zguided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53  And bhe aled them on safely, so that they feared not:

But cthe sea †overwhelmed their enemies.

54  And he brought them to the border of his dsanctuary,

Even to this demountain, which his right hand had purchased.

55  fHe cast out the heathen also before them,

And gdivided them an inheritance by hline,

And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

56  iYet they ktempted and lprovoked the most high God,

And kept not his testimonies:

57  But mturned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers:

They were turned aside nlike a deceitful bow.

58  For they oprovoked him to anger with their phigh places,

And qmoved him to jealousy with their rgraven images.

59  When God heard this, he swas wroth,

And greatly tabhorred Israel:

60  uSo that he forsook the vtabernacle of wShiloh,

xThe tent which he uplaced among men;

61  And delivered yhis strength into zcaptivity,

And his glory into the enemy’s hand.

62  He agave his people over also bunto the sword;

And cwas wroth with his inheritance.

63  The fire consumed their young men;

And their maidens were not †given to marriage.

64  dTheir priests fell by the sword;

eAnd their widows fmade no lamentation.

65  Then the Lord gawaked as one out of sleep,

And hlike a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

66  And ihe smote his enemies in the hinder parts:

He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67  Moreover he jrefused the tabernacle of jjJoseph,

And chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68  But chose the tribe of Judah,

The mount Zion kwhich he loved.

69  And he built his sanctuary like high palaces,

Like the earth which he hath †established for ever.

70  mHe chose David also his servant,

And took him from the nsheepfolds:

71  †From following the ewes ogreat with young he brought him

To pfeed qJacob his people,

And qIsrael rhis inheritance.

72  So he fed them according to the sintegrity of his heart;

And tguided them by the skilfulness of his hands.