Psalm 78:43–68

⁴³when he wrought 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, which devoured them,

and frogs, which 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 smote all the first-born in Egypt,

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

⁵²Then he led forth 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 land,

to the mountain which 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 and rebelled against the Most High God,

and did not observe his testimonies,

⁵⁷but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;

they twisted like a deceitful bow.

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

they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

⁵⁹When God heard, he was full of wrath,

and he utterly rejected Israel.

⁶⁰He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh,

the tent where he dwelt among men,

⁶¹and delivered his power to captivity,

his glory to the hand of the foe.

⁶²He gave his people over to the sword,

and vented his wrath on his heritage.

⁶³Fire devoured their young men,

and their maidens 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 strong man shouting because of wine.

⁶⁶And he put his adversaries to rout;

he put them to everlasting shame.

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.