Psalm 78:42–55

⁴²They did not remember his power

and how he rescued them from their enemies.

⁴³They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt,

his wonders on the plain of Zoan.

⁴⁴For he turned their rivers into blood,

so no one could drink from the streams.

⁴⁵He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them

and hordes of frogs to ruin them.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to caterpillars;

their harvest was consumed by locusts.

⁴⁷He destroyed their grapevines with hail

and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.

⁴⁸He abandoned their cattle to the hail,

their livestock to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹He loosed on them his fierce anger—

all his fury, rage, and hostility.

He dispatched against them

a band of destroying angels.

⁵⁰He turned his anger against them;

he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives

but ravaged them with the plague.

⁵¹He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family,

the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.

⁵²But he led his own people like a flock of sheep,

guiding them safely through the wilderness.

⁵³He kept them safe so they were not afraid;

but the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴He brought them to the border of his holy land,

to this land of hills he had won for them.

⁵⁵He drove out the nations before them;

he gave them their inheritance by lot.

He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.