Psalm 78:39-55

English Standard Version

³⁹ He ^(A)remembered that they were but ^(B)flesh,
    ^(C)a wind that passes and comes not again.
⁴⁰ How often they ^(D)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and ^(E)grieved him in ^(F)the desert!
⁴¹ They ^(G)tested God again and again
    and provoked ^(H)the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(I)did not remember his power^[a]
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
^43 (J)when he performed his ^(K)signs in Egypt
    and his ^(L)marvels in ^(M)the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He ^(N)turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of ^(O)flies, which devoured them,
    and ^(P)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to ^(Q)the destroying locust
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with ^(R)hail
    and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their ^(S)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 ^(T)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 ^(U)firstborn in Egypt,
    the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^(V)Ham.
⁵² Then he led out his people ^(W)like sheep
    and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^53 (X)He led them in safety, so that they ^(Y)were not afraid,
    but ^(Z)the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ And he brought them to his ^(AA)holy land,
    ^(AB)to the mountain which his right hand had ^(AC)won.
⁵⁵ He ^(AD)drove out nations before them;
    he ^(AE)apportioned them for a possession
    and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.