Psalm 78:43-72  New American Standard Bible

⁴³ When He performed His ^(A)signs in Egypt
And His ^(B)marvels in the field of Zoan,
⁴⁴ And ^(C)turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
⁴⁵ He sent swarms of ^(D)flies among them that devoured them,
And ^(E)frogs that destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the ^(F)grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the ^(G)locust.
⁴⁷ He ^[a]destroyed their vines with ^(H)hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He also turned their ^(I)cattle over to the hailstones,
And their herds to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹ He ^(J)sent His burning anger upon them,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
A band of ^[b]destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their souls from death,
But ^(K)turned their lives over to the plague,
⁵¹ And ^(L)struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
The ^(M)first and best of their vigor in the tents of ^(N)Ham.
⁵² But He ^(O)led His own people out like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness ^(P)like a flock;
⁵³ He led them ^(Q)safely, so that they did not fear;
But ^(R)the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴ So ^(S)He brought them to His holy ^[c]land,
To this ^[d](T)hill country ^(U)which His right hand had gained.
⁵⁵ He also ^(V)drove out the nations from them
And ^(W)apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement,
And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
⁵⁶ Yet they ^[e](X)tempted and ^(Y)rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,
⁵⁷ But turned back and ^(Z)acted treacherously like their fathers;
They ^(AA)turned aside like a treacherous bow.
⁵⁸ For they ^(AB)provoked Him with their ^(AC)high places
And ^(AD)moved Him to jealousy with their ^(AE)carved images.
⁵⁹ When God heard them, He ^[f]was filled with ^(AF)wrath
And He utterly ^(AG)rejected Israel;
⁶⁰ So that He ^(AH)abandoned the ^(AI)dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent ^[g]which He had pitched among people,
⁶¹ And He gave up His ^(AJ)strength to captivity
And His glory ^(AK)into the hand of the enemy.
⁶² He also ^(AL)turned His people over to the sword,
And ^[h]was filled with wrath at His inheritance.
^63 (AM)Fire devoured ^[i]His young men,
And ^[j]His ^(AN)virgins had no wedding songs.
^64 [k]His ^(AO)priests fell by the sword,
And ^[l]His ^(AP)widows could not weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord ^(AQ)awoke as if from sleep,
Like a ^(AR)warrior ^[m]overcome by wine.
⁶⁶ He ^[n](AS)drove His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting disgrace.
⁶⁷ He also ^(AT)rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount ^(AU)Zion, which He loved.
⁶⁹ And He ^(AV)built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has established forever.
⁷⁰ He also ^(AW)chose His servant David
And took him from the sheepfolds;
⁷¹ From ^[o](AX)the care of the ^[p]ewes ^(AY)with nursing lambs He brought him
To ^(AZ)shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel ^(BA)His inheritance.
⁷² So he shepherded them according to the ^(BB)integrity of his heart,
And guided them with his skillful hands.