Psalms 78
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Psalms 78:43-68

43when He performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

44He turned their rivers to blood,and from their streams they could not drink.45He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,and frogs that devastated them.46He gave their crops to the grasshopper,the fruit of their labor to the locust.47He killed their vines with hailstonesand their sycamore-figs with sleet.148He abandoned their cattle to the hailand their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49He unleashed His fury against them,wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.50He cleared a path for His anger;He did not spare them from deathbut delivered their lives to the plague.51He struck all the firstborn of Egypt,the virility in the tents of Ham.
52He led out His people like sheepand guided them like a flock in the wilderness.53He led them safely, so they did not fear,but the sea engulfed their enemies.54He brought them to His holy land,to the mountain His right hand had acquired.55He drove out nations before themand apportioned their inheritance;He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56But they tested and disobeyed God Most High,for they did not keep His decrees.57They turned back and were faithless like their fathers,twisted like a faulty bow.58They enraged Him with their high placesand provoked His jealousy with their idols.
59On hearing it, God was furiousand rejected Israel completely.60He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,the tent He had pitched among men.61He delivered His strength to captivity,and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.62He surrendered His people to the swordbecause He was enraged by His heritage.63Fire consumed His young men,and their maidens were left without wedding songs.64His priests fell by the sword,but their widows could not lament.
65Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.66He beat back His foes;He put them to everlasting shame.67He rejected the tent of Josephand refused the tribe of Ephraim.68But He chose the tribe of Judah,Mount Zion, which He loved.
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  1. 1. Psalms 78:47 Or frost or driving rain ↩

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