Psalms 78:39-68

³⁹For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

⁴⁰How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?

⁴¹Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.

⁴²They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,

⁴³Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,

⁴⁴And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.

⁴⁵Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.

⁴⁷He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.

⁴⁸He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.

⁴⁹Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.

⁵⁰He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,

⁵¹And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.

⁵²But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.

⁵³Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.

⁵⁵He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

⁵⁶Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

⁵⁷But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

⁵⁸And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

⁵⁹God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

⁶⁰So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,

⁶¹And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.

⁶²And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.

⁶³The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.

⁶⁴Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.

⁶⁵But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,

⁶⁶And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.

⁶⁷Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.