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.
55He drove out the nations from before them and assigned them their inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56Yet they challenged and defied the Most High God and did not keep his solemn commands.
57They were unfaithful and acted treacherously like their fathers; they were as undependable as a faulty bow.
58For they made him angry with their high places and provoked him to jealous anger with their idols.
59When God heard this, he was angry and completely rejected Israel.
60He abandoned the sanctuary of Shiloh, the tent where he had lived among people.
61He allowed his strength to be captured and gave his glory into the enemy's hand.
62He handed his people over to the sword, and he was angry with his heritage.
63Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs.