Psalms 78:32-55

32In spite of all this they still sinned, For they did not believe in His wonderful and extraordinary works.

33Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility] And their years in sudden terror.

34When He killed [some of] them, then those remaining sought Him, And they returned [to Him] and searched diligently for God [for a time].

35And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

36Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouths And lied to Him with their tongues.

37For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, Nor were they faithful to His covenant.

38But He, the source of compassion and lovingkindness, forgave their wickedness and did not destroy them; Many times He restrained His anger And did not stir up all His wrath.

39For He [graciously] remembered that they were mere [human] flesh, A wind that goes and does not return.

40How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness And grieved Him in the desert!

41Again and again they tempted God, And distressed the Holy One of Israel.

42They did not remember [the miracles worked by] His [powerful] hand, Nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

43How He worked His miracles in Egypt And His wonders in the field of Zoan [where Pharaoh resided],

44And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

45He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them.

46He also gave their crops to the grasshopper, And the fruit of their labor to the locust.

47He destroyed their vines with [great] hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.

48He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones, And their flocks and herds to thunderbolts.

49He sent upon them His burning anger, His fury and indignation and distress, A band of angels of destruction [among them].

50He leveled a path for His anger [to give it free run]; He did not spare their souls from death, But turned over their lives to the plague.

51He killed all the firstborn in Egypt, The first and best of their strength in the tents [of the land of the sons] of Ham.

52But God led His own people forward like sheep And guided them in the wilderness like [a good shepherd with] a flock.

53He led them safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea engulfed their enemies.

54So He brought them to His holy land, To this mountain [Zion] which His right hand had acquired.

55He also drove out the nations before the sons of Israel And allotted their land as an inheritance, measured out and partitioned; And He had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents [the tents of those who had been dispossessed].