Psalm 78:42–55

⁴²They did not remember his power

or the time he saved them from the enemy.

⁴³They forgot the signs he did in Egypt

and his wonders in the fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned their rivers to blood

so no one could drink the water.

⁴⁵He sent flies that bit the people.

He sent frogs that destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to grasshoppers

and what they worked for to locusts.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail

and their sycamore trees with sleet.

⁴⁸He killed their animals with hail

and their cattle with lightning.

⁴⁹He showed them his hot anger.

He sent his strong anger against them,

his destroying angels.

⁵⁰He found a way to show his anger.

He did not keep them from dying

but let them die by a terrible disease.

⁵¹God killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt,

the oldest son of each family of Ham. ⁿ

⁵²But God led his people out like sheep

and he guided them like a flock through the desert.

⁵³He led them to safety so they had nothing to fear,

but their enemies drowned in the sea.

⁵⁴So God brought them to his holy land,

to the mountain country he took with his own power.

⁵⁵He forced out the other nations,

and he had his people inherit the land.

He let the tribes of Israel settle there in tents.