Psalms 78:38-64

38Yet he was compassionate; he atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often turned his anger aside and did not unleash all his wrath.

39He remembered that they were only flesh, a wind that passes and does not return.

40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert.

41They constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42They did not remember his power shown on the day he redeemed them from the foe,

43when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.

44He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams.

45He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them.

46He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

47He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.

48He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts.

49He sent his burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity — a band of deadly messengers.

50He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

51He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham.

52He led his people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

53He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies.

54He brought them to his holy territory, to the mountain his right hand acquired.

55He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

56But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep his decrees.

57They treacherously turned away like their ancestors; they became warped like a faulty bow.

58They enraged him with their high places and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.

59God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel.

60He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he resided among mankind.

61He gave up his strength to captivity and his splendor to the hand of a foe.

62He surrendered his people to the sword because he was enraged with his heritage.

63Fire consumed his chosen young men, and his young women had no wedding songs.

64His priests fell by the sword, and the widows could not lament.