Psalm 78:43–58

⁴³when He performed His signs in Egypt

and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned their rivers to blood,

and from their streams they could not drink.

⁴⁵He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,

and frogs that devastated them.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to the grasshopper,

the fruit of their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hailstones

and their sycamore-figs with sleet.^g

⁴⁸He abandoned their cattle to the hail

and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹He unleashed His fury against them,

wrath, indignation, and calamity—

a band of destroying angels.

⁵⁰He cleared a path for His anger;

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.

⁵¹He struck all the firstborn of Egypt,

the virility in the tents of Ham.

⁵²He led out His people like sheep

and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

⁵³He led them safely, so they did not fear,

but the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴He brought them to His holy land,

to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

⁵⁵He drove out nations before them

and apportioned their inheritance;

He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶But they tested and disobeyed God Most High,

for they did not keep His decrees.

⁵⁷They turned back and were faithless like their fathers,

twisted like a faulty bow.

⁵⁸They enraged Him with their high places

and provoked His jealousy with their idols.