Psalms 78:45-65

⁴⁵He sent amongst them flies, which devoured them, And frogs, which destroyed them.

⁴⁶He gave also their fruits to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore-trees with frost.

⁴⁸He also gave up their cattle to hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

⁴⁹He sent against them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, indignation, and woe,—A host of angels of evil.

⁵⁰He made a way for his anger, He spared them not from death, But gave up their lives to the pestilence.

⁵¹He smote all the firstborn in Egypt; The first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.

⁵²But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

⁵³He led them on safely, so that they feared not, While the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

⁵⁴He brought them to his own sacred border, Even to this mountain which his right hand had gained.

⁵⁵He cast out the nations before them, And divided their land by a measuring-line, as an inheritance, And caused the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶Yet they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, And kept not his statutes;

⁵⁷Like their fathers they were faithless, and turned back; They turned aside, like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸They provoked his anger by their high places, And stirred up his jealousy by their graven images.

⁵⁹God saw this, and was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;

⁶⁰So that he forsook the habitation at Shiloh, The tabernacle where he dwelt among men,

⁶¹And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the hand of the enemy.

⁶²His own people he gave up to the sword, And was wroth with his own inheritance.

⁶³Fire consumed their young men, And their maidens did not bewail them.

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation.

⁶⁵But at length the Lord awaked as from sleep, As a hero who had been overpowered by wine;