Psalm 78:46–58

46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,a

their produce to the locust.b

47 He destroyed their vines with hailc

and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

48 He gave over their cattle to the hail,

their livestockd to bolts of lightning.

49 He unleashed against them his hot anger,e

his wrath, indignation and hostility—

a band of destroying angels.f

50 He prepared a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death

but gave them over to the plague.

51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,g

the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.h

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

he led them like sheep through the wilderness.

53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;

but the sea engulfedj their enemies.k

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

to the hill country his right handl had taken.

55 He drove out nationsm before them

and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;n

he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

56 But they put God to the test

and rebelled against the Most High;

they did not keep his statutes.

57 Like their ancestorso they were disloyal and faithless,

as unreliable as a faulty bow.p

58 They angered himq with their high places;r

they aroused his jealousy with their idols.s