Psalms 78:48-66

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;

⁵⁵And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

⁵⁶But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

⁵⁷And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

⁵⁸And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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

⁶⁰And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

⁶¹And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;

⁶²And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:

⁶³The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song;

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

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;

⁶⁶And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.