Psalm 78:40-55

English Standard Version

⁴⁰ How often they ^(A)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and ^(B)grieved him in ^(C)the desert!
⁴¹ They ^(D)tested God again and again
    and provoked ^(E)the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(F)did not remember his power^[a]
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
^43 (G)when he performed his ^(H)signs in Egypt
    and his ^(I)marvels in ^(J)the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He ^(K)turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of ^(L)flies, which devoured them,
    and ^(M)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to ^(N)the destroying locust
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with ^(O)hail
    and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their ^(P)cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.
⁴⁹ He let loose on them his burning anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of ^(Q)destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death,
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down every ^(R)firstborn in Egypt,
    the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^(S)Ham.
⁵² Then he led out his people ^(T)like sheep
    and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^53 (U)He led them in safety, so that they ^(V)were not afraid,
    but ^(W)the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ And he brought them to his ^(X)holy land,
    ^(Y)to the mountain which his right hand had ^(Z)won.
⁵⁵ He ^(AA)drove out nations before them;
    he ^(AB)apportioned them for a possession
    and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.