Psalm 78:42–55

⁴²They didn’t remember his power.

They forgot the day he set them free

from those who had beaten them down.

⁴³They forgot how he had shown them his miraculous signs in Egypt.

They forgot his miracles in the area of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned the rivers of Egypt into blood.

The people of Egypt couldn’t drink water from their streams.

⁴⁵He sent large numbers of flies that bit them.

He sent frogs that destroyed their land.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to the grasshoppers.

He gave their food to the locusts.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail.

He destroyed their fig trees with sleet.

⁴⁸He killed their cattle with hail.

Their livestock were struck by lightning.

⁴⁹He brought great trouble on Egypt by pouring out his blazing anger.

In his hot anger he sent destroying angels against them.

⁵⁰God prepared a path for his anger.

He didn’t spare their lives.

He gave them over to the plague.

⁵¹He killed the oldest son of each family in Egypt.

He struck down the oldest son in every house in the land of Ham.

⁵²But he brought his people out like a flock.

He led them like sheep through the desert.

⁵³He guided them safely, and they weren’t afraid.

But the Red Sea swallowed up their enemies.

⁵⁴He brought his people to the border of his holy land.

He led them to the central hill country he had taken by his power.

⁵⁵He drove the nations out to make room for his people.

He gave to each family a piece of land to pass on to their children.

He settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.