Psalm 78:43–68

⁴³when he displayed his signs in Egypt

and his miracles in the fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned their rivers to blood,

so that they could not drink of their streams.^*

⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies that devoured them

and frogs that destroyed them.^*

⁴⁶He gave their crops to the caterpillar

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail

and their sycamores with frost.^*

⁴⁸He gave over their cattle to the hail

and their flocks to thunderbolts.^*

⁴⁹He let loose on them his fierce anger,

wrath, indignation, and distress,

a company of destroying angels.^*

⁵⁰He made a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death

but gave their lives over to the plague.

⁵¹He struck all the firstborn in Egypt,

the first issue of their strength in the tents of Ham.^*

⁵²Then he led out his people like sheep

and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.^*

⁵³He led them in safety so that they were not afraid,

but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.^*

⁵⁴And he brought them to his holy hill,

to the mountain that his right hand had won.^*

⁵⁵He drove out nations before them;

he apportioned them for a possession

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.^*

⁵⁶Yet they tested the Most High God

and rebelled against him.

They did not observe his decrees^*

⁵⁷but turned away and were faithless like their ancestors;

they twisted like a treacherous bow.^*

⁵⁸For they provoked him to anger with their high places;

they moved him to jealousy with their idols.^*

⁵⁹When God heard, he was full of wrath,

and he utterly rejected Israel.

⁶⁰He abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh,

the tent where he dwelt among mortals,^*

⁶¹and delivered his power to captivity,

his glory to the hand of the foe.^*

⁶²He gave his people to the sword

and vented his wrath on his heritage.^*

⁶³Fire devoured their young men,

and their young women had no marriage song.^*

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword,

and their widows made no lamentation.^*

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,

like a warrior shouting because of wine.^*

⁶⁶He put his adversaries to rout;

he put them to everlasting disgrace.^*

⁶⁷He rejected the tent of Joseph;

he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

⁶⁸but he chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion, which he loves.^*