Psalms 78:49-59

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].

56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies (laws).

57They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].

58For they provoked Him to [righteous] anger with their high places [devoted to idol worship] And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images [by denying Him the love, worship, and obedience that is rightfully and uniquely His].

59When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath; And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],