Psalms 78:36-54

³⁶But they would flatter him with their mouth and lie to him with their words.

³⁷For their hearts were not firmly fixed on him, and they were not faithful to his covenant.

³⁸Yet he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. Yes, many times he held back his anger and did not stir up all his wrath.

³⁹He called to mind that they were made of flesh, a wind that passes away and does not return.

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the barren regions!

⁴¹Again and again they challenged God and offended the Holy One of Israel.

⁴²They did not think about his power, how he had rescued them from the enemy

⁴³when he performed his terrifying signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned the Egyptians' rivers to blood so that they could not drink from their streams.

⁴⁵He sent swarms of flies that devoured them and frogs that overran their land.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to the grasshopper and their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with more hail.

⁴⁸He rained hail on their cattle and hurled lightning bolts at their livestock.

⁴⁹The fierceness of his anger lashed out against them. He sent wrath, fury, and trouble like agents who bring disaster.

⁵⁰He leveled a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

⁵¹He killed all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstborn of their strength in the tents of Ham.

⁵²He led his own people out like sheep and guided them through the wilderness like a flock.

⁵³He led them secure and unafraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴Then he brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountain that his right hand acquired.