40 How often they tprovoked 8Him in the wilderness,

And grieved Him in the desert!

41 Yes, uagain and again they tempted God,

And limited the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember His 9power:

The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

43 When He worked His signs in Egypt,

And His wonders in the field of Zoan;

44 vTurned their rivers into blood,

And their streams, that they could not drink.

45 wHe sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,

And xfrogs, which destroyed them.

46 He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,

And their labor to the ylocust.

47 zHe destroyed their vines with hail,

And their sycamore trees with frost.

48 He also gave up their acattle to the hail,

And their flocks to fiery 1lightning.

49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,

Wrath, indignation, and trouble,

By sending angels of destruction among them.

50 He made a path for His anger;

He did not spare their soul from death,

But gave 2their life over to the plague,

51 And destroyed all the bfirstborn in Egypt,

The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52 But He cmade His own people go forth like sheep,

And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

53 And He dled them on safely, so that they did not fear;

But the sea eoverwhelmed their enemies.

54 And He brought them to His fholy border,

This mountain gwhich His right hand had acquired.

55 hHe also drove out the nations before them,

iAllotted them an inheritance by 3survey,

And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

56 jYet they tested and provoked the Most High God,

And did not keep His testimonies,

57 But kturned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;

They were turned aside llike a deceitful bow.

58 mFor they provoked Him to anger with their nhigh places,

And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

59 When God heard this, He was furious,

And greatly abhorred Israel,

60 oSo that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,

The tent He had placed among men,

61 pAnd delivered His strength into captivity,

And His glory into the enemy’s hand.

62 qHe also gave His people over to the sword,

And was furious with His inheritance.

63 The fire consumed their young men,

And rtheir maidens were not given in marriage.

64 sTheir priests fell by the sword,

And ttheir widows made no lamentation.

65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,

uLike a mighty man who shouts because of wine.

66 And vHe beat back His enemies;

He put them to a perpetual reproach.

67 Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph,

And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

68 But chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion wwhich He loved.

69 And He built His xsanctuary like the heights,

Like the earth which He has established forever.

70 yHe also chose David His servant,

And took him from the sheepfolds;

71 From following zthe ewes that had young He brought him,

aTo shepherd Jacob His people,

And Israel His inheritance.

72 So he shepherded them according to the bintegrity of his heart,

And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.