PSALMS 78:43-66

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.

⁶³Fire devoured their young men; and their maidens had no marriage-song.

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

⁶⁶And he smote his adversaries backward: he put them to a perpetual reproach.