Psalm 78:43–68

⁴³how he performed^t his signs in Egypt

and his wonders in the region of Zoan,

⁴⁴when he turned their rivers^u to blood

so they could not drink from their streams.

⁴⁵He sent among them flies that devoured them

and frogs that destroyed them.

⁴⁶And he gave their crop to the locusts

and their labor to the locust.^v

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail

and their sycamore trees with sleet.^w

⁴⁸He also handed their cattle over to the hail

and their livestock to the lightning bolts.

⁴⁹He sent against them his fierce anger,

rage and indignation and trouble,

a band of destroying^x angels.

⁵⁰He cleared a path for his anger.

He did not spare them^y from death

but handed their life over to the plague.

⁵¹And he struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,

the first of their virility in the tents of Ham.

⁵²Then he led out his people like sheep

and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.

⁵³And he led them safely and they were not afraid,

but the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴So he brought them to his holy territory,^z

this mountain his right hand acquired.^a

⁵⁵And he drove out nations before them

and allocated them for an inheritance by boundary line,

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶But they tested and rebelled against God Most High

and did not keep his statutes.

⁵⁷And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors.^b

They twisted like a crooked^c bow.

⁵⁸For they provoked him to anger with their high places,

and made him jealous with their images.

⁵⁹God heard and he was very angry

and rejected Israel utterly.

⁶⁰So he abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,

the tent he had placed among humankind.

⁶¹And he gave his strength into captivity

and his splendor into the hand of the enemy.

⁶²He also handed his people over to the sword,

and he was very angry with his inheritance.

⁶³Fire devoured his young men,

and his young women^d were not praised.

⁶⁴His priests fell by the sword,

and his widows did not weep.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke like one who had been asleep,

awoke like a warrior who had been drunk with wine.^e

⁶⁶And he beat back his enemies;

he gave them over to perpetual scorn.

⁶⁷And he rejected the tent of Joseph,

and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸but chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion^f that he loved.