40 How often they (A)provoked[a] Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!
41 Yes, (B)again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.
42 They did not remember His [b]power:
The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
43 When He worked His signs in Egypt,
And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
44 (C)Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.
45 (D)He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And (E)frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the (F)locust.
47 (G)He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore trees with frost.
48 He also gave up their (H)cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery [c]lightning.
49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger,
Wrath, indignation, and trouble,
By sending angels of destruction among them.
50 He made a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave [d]their life over to the plague,
51 And destroyed all the (I)firstborn in Egypt,
The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 But He (J)made His own people go forth like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
53 And He (K)led them on safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea (L)overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And He brought them to His (M)holy border,
This mountain (N)which His right hand had acquired.
55 (O)He also drove out the nations before them,
(P)Allotted them an inheritance by [e]survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 78:40 rebelled against Him
  2. Psalm 78:42 Lit. hand
  3. Psalm 78:48 lightning bolts
  4. Psalm 78:50 Or their beasts
  5. Psalm 78:55 surveyed measurement, lit. measuring cord

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