Psalms 78:39-54

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

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

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

⁴²They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

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

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

⁴⁵He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;

⁴⁶And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;

⁴⁸And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.

⁴⁹He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, — a mission of angels of woes.

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

⁵¹And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.

⁵²And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

⁵³And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;