PSALMS 78:34-62

³⁴When he slew them, then they inquired after him: and they returned and sought God early.

³⁵And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.

³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue.

³⁷For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

³⁸But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.

³⁹And he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

⁴⁰How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

⁴¹And they turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary.

⁴³How he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan;

⁴⁴And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink.

⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

⁴⁸He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a band of angels of evil.

⁵⁰He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

⁵¹And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham:

⁵²But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³And he led them safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

⁵⁵He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies;

⁵⁷But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

⁵⁹When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

⁶⁰So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

⁶¹And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the adversary’s hand.

⁶²He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.