Psalms 78:33-54

³³So, he caused their lives to end as quickly as a puff of wind ends; they died when disasters suddenly struck them.

³⁴When God caused some of them to die, the others turned to God; they repented and earnestly asked God to save them.

³⁵They remembered that God is like a huge rock ledge under which they would be safe MET, and that he, who was greater than any other god, is the one who protected/rescued them.

³⁶But they tried to deceive God by what they said MTY; their words MTY were all lies.

³⁷They were not loyal to him; they disregarded/ignored the agreement that he had made with them.

³⁸But God was merciful to his people. He forgave them for having sinned and did not get rid of them. Many times he refrained from becoming angry with them and restrained from furiously/severely punishing them MTY.

³⁹He remembered/considered that they were only humans who die; they disappear quickly SIM, like a wind that blows by and then is gone.

⁴⁰Many times our ancestors rebelled against God in the desert and caused him to become very sad.

⁴¹Many times they did evil things, to find out if they could do those things without God punishing them. They frequently caused the holy God of Israel to become disgusted/sad.

⁴²They forgot about his great power, and they ◄forgot/did not think► about the time when he rescued them from their enemies.

⁴³They forgot about when he performed many miracles in the area near Zoan city in Egypt.

⁴⁴He caused the Nile River (OR, their sources of water) to become red like blood, with the result that the people of Egypt had no water to drink.

⁴⁵He sent among the people of Egypt swarms of flies that bit them, and he sent frogs that ate up everything.

⁴⁶He sent locusts to eat their crops and the other things that grew in their fields.

⁴⁷He sent hail that destroyed the grapevines, and sent frost that ruined the figs.

⁴⁸He sent hail that killed their cattle and sent lightning that killed their sheep and cows.

⁴⁹Because God was fiercely angry with the people of Egypt, he caused them to be very distressed. The disasters that struck them were like a group of angels that destroyed everything.

⁵⁰He did not lessen his being angry with them, and he did not ◄spare their lives/prevent them from dying►; he sent a ◄plague/serious illness► that killed many of them.

⁵¹He also caused all the firstborn sons of the people of Egypt to die.

⁵²Then he led his people out of Egypt like a shepherd leads his sheep SIM, and he guided them while they walked through the desert.

⁵³He led them safely, and they were not afraid, but their enemies were drowned in the sea.

⁵⁴Later he brought them to Canaan, his sacred land, to Zion Hill (OR, the hilly area) and by his power MTY he enabled them to conquer the people who were living there.