Psalm 78:32-55

New American Standard Bible

³² In spite of all this they ^(A)still sinned
And ^(B)did not believe in His wonderful works.
³³ So He brought ^(C)their days to an end in futility,
And their years to an end in sudden terror.

³⁴ When He killed them, then they ^(D)sought Him,
And they returned and searched ^(E)diligently for God;
³⁵ And they remembered that God was their ^(F)rock,
And the Most High God their ^(G)Redeemer.
³⁶ But they ^(H)flattered Him with their mouth
And ^(I)lied to Him with their tongue.
³⁷ For their heart was not ^(J)steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful with His covenant.
³⁸ But He, being ^(K)compassionate, ^[a](L)forgave their wrongdoing and did not destroy them;
And often He ^[b](M)restrained His anger
And did not stir up all His wrath.
³⁹ So ^(N)He remembered that they were only ^(O)flesh,
A ^[c](P)wind that passes and does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they ^(Q)rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And ^(R)grieved Him in the ^(S)desert!
⁴¹ Again and again they ^[d](T)tempted God,
And pained the ^(U)Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(V)did not remember ^(W)His ^[e]power,
The day when He ^(X)redeemed them from the enemy,
⁴³ When He performed His ^(Y)signs in Egypt
And His ^(Z)marvels in the field of Zoan,
⁴⁴ And ^(AA)turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
⁴⁵ He sent swarms of ^(AB)flies among them that devoured them,
And ^(AC)frogs that destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He also gave their crops to the ^(AD)grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the ^(AE)locust.
⁴⁷ He ^[f]destroyed their vines with ^(AF)hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He also turned their ^(AG)cattle over to the hailstones,
And their herds to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹ He ^(AH)sent His burning anger upon them,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
A band of ^[g]destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their souls from death,
But ^(AI)turned their lives over to the plague,
⁵¹ And ^(AJ)struck all the firstborn in Egypt,
The ^(AK)first and best of their vigor in the tents of ^(AL)Ham.
⁵² But He ^(AM)led His own people out like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness ^(AN)like a flock;
⁵³ He led them ^(AO)safely, so that they did not fear;
But ^(AP)the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴ So ^(AQ)He brought them to His holy ^[h]land,
To this ^[i](AR)hill country ^(AS)which His right hand had gained.
⁵⁵ He also ^(AT)drove out the nations from them
And ^(AU)apportioned them as an inheritance by measurement,
And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.