Psalms 78:49-66

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.

⁶⁴Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows could not weep.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awakened as one from sleep, like a warrior who shouts because of wine.

⁶⁶He drove his adversaries back; he put them to everlasting shame.