Psalm 78:43–68

⁴³When He worked His signs in Egypt,

And His wonders in the field of Zoan;

^44vTurned their rivers into blood,

And their streams, that they could not drink.

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

And ^xfrogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,

And their labor to the ^ylocust.

^47zHe destroyed their vines with hail,

And their sycamore trees with frost.

⁴⁸He also gave up their ^acattle to the hail,

And their flocks to fiery ¹lightning.

⁴⁹He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,

Wrath, indignation, and trouble,

By sending angels of destruction among them.

⁵⁰He made a path for His anger;

He did not spare their soul from death,

But gave ²their life over to the plague,

⁵¹And destroyed all the ^bfirstborn in Egypt,

The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

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

And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

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

But the sea ^eoverwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴And He brought them to His ^fholy border,

This mountain ^gwhich His right hand had acquired.

^55hHe also drove out the nations before them,

ⁱAllotted them an inheritance by ³survey,

And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

^56jYet they tested and provoked the Most High God,

And did not keep His testimonies,

⁵⁷But ^kturned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;

They were turned aside ^llike a deceitful bow.

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

And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

⁵⁹When God heard this, He was furious,

And greatly abhorred Israel,

^60oSo that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,

The tent He had placed among men,

^61pAnd delivered His strength into captivity,

And His glory into the enemy’s hand.

^62qHe also gave His people over to the sword,

And was furious with His inheritance.

⁶³The fire consumed their young men,

And ^rtheir maidens were not given in marriage.

^64sTheir priests fell by the sword,

And ^ttheir widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,

^uLike a mighty man who shouts because of wine.

⁶⁶And ^vHe beat back His enemies;

He put them to a perpetual reproach.

⁶⁷Moreover He rejected the tent of Joseph,

And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion ^wwhich He loved.