Psalm 78:42–55

⁴²They did not remember^t his power—

the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,^u

⁴³the day he displayed his signs^v in Egypt,

his wonders^w in the region of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned their river into blood;^x

they could not drink from their streams.

⁴⁵He sent swarms of flies^y that devoured them,

and frogs^z that devastated them.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to the grasshopper,^a

their produce to the locust.^b

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail^c

and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

⁴⁸He gave over their cattle to the hail,

their livestock^d to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹He unleashed against them his hot anger,^e

his wrath, indignation and hostility—

a band of destroying angels.^f

⁵⁰He prepared a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death

but gave them over to the plague.

⁵¹He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,^g

the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^h

⁵²But he brought his people out like a flock;ⁱ

he led them like sheep through the wilderness.

⁵³He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;

but the sea engulfed^j their enemies.^k

⁵⁴And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,

to the hill country his right hand^l had taken.

⁵⁵He drove out nations^m before them

and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;ⁿ

he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.