Psalm 78:40-55

New Living Translation

⁴⁰Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.
⁴¹Again and again they tested God’s patience
    and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
⁴²They did not remember his power
    and how he rescued them from their enemies.
⁴³They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt,
    his wonders on the plain of Zoan.
⁴⁴For he turned their rivers into blood,
    so no one could drink from the streams.
⁴⁵He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them
    and hordes of frogs to ruin them.
⁴⁶He gave their crops to caterpillars;
    their harvest was consumed by locusts.
⁴⁷He destroyed their grapevines with hail
    and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.
⁴⁸He abandoned their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹He loosed on them his fierce anger—
    all his fury, rage, and hostility.
He dispatched against them
    a band of destroying angels.
⁵⁰He turned his anger against them;
    he did not spare the Egyptians’ lives
    but ravaged them with the plague.
⁵¹He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family,
    the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.^[a]
⁵²But he led his own people like a flock of sheep,
    guiding them safely through the wilderness.
⁵³He kept them safe so they were not afraid;
    but the sea covered their enemies.
⁵⁴He brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to this land of hills he had won for them.
⁵⁵He drove out the nations before them;
    he gave them their inheritance by lot.
    He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.