Psalm 78:32-55

English Standard Version

³² In spite of all this, they ^(A)still sinned;
    ^(B)despite his wonders, they did not believe.
³³ So he made ^(C)their days ^(D)vanish like^[a] a breath,^[b]
    and their years in terror.
³⁴ When he killed them, they ^(E)sought him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their ^(F)rock,
    the Most High God their ^(G)redeemer.
³⁶ But they ^(H)flattered him with their mouths;
    they ^(I)lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷ Their ^(J)heart was not ^(K)steadfast toward him;
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸ Yet he, being ^(L)compassionate,
    ^(M)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹ He ^(N)remembered that they were but ^(O)flesh,
    ^(P)a wind that passes and comes not again.
⁴⁰ How often they ^(Q)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and ^(R)grieved him in ^(S)the desert!
⁴¹ They ^(T)tested God again and again
    and provoked ^(U)the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They ^(V)did not remember his power^[c]
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
^43 (W)when he performed his ^(X)signs in Egypt
    and his ^(Y)marvels in ^(Z)the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He ^(AA)turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent among them swarms of ^(AB)flies, which devoured them,
    and ^(AC)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to ^(AD)the destroying locust
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with ^(AE)hail
    and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸ He gave over their ^(AF)cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.
⁴⁹ He let loose on them his burning anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of ^(AG)destroying angels.
⁵⁰ He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death,
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
⁵¹ He struck down every ^(AH)firstborn in Egypt,
    the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^(AI)Ham.
⁵² Then he led out his people ^(AJ)like sheep
    and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^53 (AK)He led them in safety, so that they ^(AL)were not afraid,
    but ^(AM)the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
⁵⁴ And he brought them to his ^(AN)holy land,
    ^(AO)to the mountain which his right hand had ^(AP)won.
⁵⁵ He ^(AQ)drove out nations before them;
    he ^(AR)apportioned them for a possession
    and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.