Psalm 78:43–68

⁴³When He performed His ^asigns in Egypt

And His ^bmarvels in the field of Zoan,

⁴⁴And ^aturned their rivers to blood,

And their streams, they could not drink.

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

And ^bfrogs which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave also their crops to the ^agrasshopper

And the product of their labor to the ^blocust.

⁴⁷He ¹destroyed their vines with ^ahailstones

And their sycamore trees with frost.

⁴⁸He gave over their ^acattle also to the hailstones

And their herds to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹He ^asent upon them His burning anger,

Fury and indignation and trouble,

¹A band of destroying angels.

⁵⁰He leveled a path for His anger;

He did not spare their soul from death,

But ^agave over their life to the plague,

⁵¹And ^asmote all the firstborn in Egypt,

The ^bfirst issue of their virility in the tents of ^cHam.

⁵²But He ^aled forth His own people like sheep

And guided them in the wilderness ^blike a flock;

⁵³He led them ^asafely, so that they did not fear;

But ^bthe sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴So ^aHe brought them to His holy ¹land,

To this ^2bhill country ^cwhich His right hand had gained.

⁵⁵He also ^adrove out the nations before them

And ^bapportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,

And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they ^1atempted and ^brebelled against the Most High God

And did not keep His testimonies,

⁵⁷But turned back and ^aacted treacherously like their fathers;

They ^bturned aside like a treacherous bow.

⁵⁸For they ^aprovoked Him with their ^bhigh places

And ^caroused His jealousy with their ^dgraven images.

⁵⁹When God heard, He ¹was filled with ^awrath

And greatly ^babhorred Israel;

⁶⁰So that He ^aabandoned the ^bdwelling place at Shiloh,

The tent ¹which He had pitched among men,

⁶¹And gave up His ^astrength to captivity

And His glory ^binto the hand of the adversary.

⁶²He also ^adelivered His people to the sword,

And ¹was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

^63aFire devoured ¹His young men,

And His ^bvirgins had no wedding songs.

⁶⁴¹His ^apriests fell by the sword,

And His ^bwidows could not weep.

⁶⁵Then the Lord ^aawoke as if from sleep,

Like a ^bwarrior ¹overcome by wine.

⁶⁶He ^1adrove His adversaries backward;

He put on them an everlasting reproach.

⁶⁷He also ^arejected the tent of Joseph,

And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount ^aZion which He loved.