Psalm 78:40-55

International Standard Version

⁴⁰ How they rebelled against him in the desert,
    grieving him in the wilderness!
⁴¹ They tested God again and again,
    provoking the Holy One of Israel.
⁴² They did not remember his power—
    the day he delivered them from their adversary,
⁴³ when he set his signs in Egypt
    and his wonders in the plain of Zoan.

⁴⁴ He turned their rivers into blood
    and made their streams undrinkable.
⁴⁵ He sent swarms of insects to bite them
    and frogs to destroy them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to caterpillars
    and what they worked for to locusts.
⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail
    and their sycamore^[a] trees with frost.
⁴⁸ He delivered their beasts to hail
    and their livestock to lightning bolts.
⁴⁹ He inflicted his burning anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
        sending destroying angels among them.
⁵⁰ He blazed a path for his anger;
    he did not stop short from killing them,
        but handed them over to pestilence.
⁵¹ He struck every firstborn in Egypt,
    the first fruits of their manhood in the tents of Ham.
⁵² Yet he led out his people like sheep,
    guiding them like a flock in the desert.
⁵³ He led them to safety so they would not fear.
    As for their enemies, the sea covered them.
⁵⁴ He brought the people^[b] to the border of his holy mountain,
    which he acquired by his might.
⁵⁵ He drove out nations before them
    and allotted their tribal inheritance,
        settling the tribes of Israel in their tents.