Psalm 78:43-68

Legacy Standard Bible

⁴³ When He performed His ^(A)signs in Egypt
And His ^(B)miracles in the field of Zoan,
⁴⁴ And ^(C)turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, they could not drink.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of ^(D)flies which devoured them,
And ^(E)frogs which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave also their crops to the ^(F)grasshopper
And the fruit of their labor to the ^(G)locust.
⁴⁷ He killed their vines with ^(H)hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their ^(I)cattle also to the hailstones
And their herds to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹ He ^(J)sent upon them His burning anger,
Fury and indignation and ^[a]distress,
^[b]A band of destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not hold back their soul from death,
But ^(K)gave over their life to the plague,
⁵¹ So He ^(L)struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
The ^(M)first of their vigor in the tents of ^(N)Ham.
⁵² But He ^(O)led forth His own people 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 covered 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 acquired.
⁵⁵ He also ^(V)drove out the nations before them
And ^(W)apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
⁵⁶ Yet they ^[e](X)tested 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)aroused His jealousy with their ^(AE)graven images.
⁵⁹ God heard and ^[f]was filled with ^(AF)wrath
And greatly ^(AG)rejected Israel;
⁶⁰ So that He ^(AH)abandoned the ^(AI)dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent ^[g]which He caused to dwell among men,
⁶¹ And gave up His ^(AJ)strength to captivity
And His beauty ^(AK)into the hand of the adversary.
⁶² He also ^(AL)gave over His people to the sword,
And ^[h]was filled with wrath at His inheritance.
^63 (AM)Fire devoured ^[i]His choice 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,
As if He were a ^(AR)warrior ^[m]overcome by wine.
⁶⁶ He ^(AS)struck His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting reproach.
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.