Psalm 78:26-50

New King James Version

^26 (A)He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens;
And by His power He brought in the south wind.
²⁷ He also rained meat on them like the dust,
Feathered fowl like the sand of the seas;
²⁸ And He let them fall in the midst of their camp,
All around their dwellings.
^29 (B)So they ate and were well filled,
For He gave them their own desire.
³⁰ They were not ^[a]deprived of their craving;
But ^(C)while their food was still in their mouths,
³¹ The wrath of God came against them,
And slew the stoutest of them,
And struck down the choice men of Israel.

³² In spite of this ^(D)they still sinned,
And ^(E)did not believe in His wondrous works.
^33 (F)Therefore their days He consumed in futility,
And their years in fear.

^34 (G)When He slew them, then they sought Him;
And they returned and sought earnestly for God.
³⁵ Then they remembered that ^(H)God was their rock,
And the Most High God ^(I)their Redeemer.
³⁶ Nevertheless they ^(J)flattered Him with their mouth,
And they lied to Him with their tongue;
³⁷ For their heart was not steadfast with Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.
^38 (K)But He, being full of ^(L)compassion, forgave their iniquity,
And did not destroy them.
Yes, many a time ^(M)He turned His anger away,
And ^(N)did not stir up all His wrath;
³⁹ For ^(O)He remembered ^(P)that they were but flesh,
^(Q)A breath that passes away and does not come again.

⁴⁰ How often they ^(R)provoked^[b] Him in the wilderness,
And grieved Him in the desert!
⁴¹ Yes, ^(S)again and again they tempted God,
And limited the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They did not remember His ^[c]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 (T)Turned their rivers into blood,
And their streams, that they could not drink.
^45 (U)He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them,
And ^(V)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the caterpillar,
And their labor to the ^(W)locust.
^47 (X)He destroyed their vines with hail,
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He also gave up their ^(Y)cattle to the hail,
And their flocks to fiery ^[d]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 ^[e]their life over to the plague,