Psalms 78:32-55

32In spite of all this, they continued to sin, and they no longer believed in his miracles.

33He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.

34When he killed ⌞some of⌟ them, ⌞the rest⌟ searched for him. They turned from their sins and eagerly looked for God.

35They remembered that God was their rock, that the Most High was their defender.

36They flattered him with their mouths and lied to him with their tongues.

37Their hearts were not loyal to him. They were not faithful to his promise.

38But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.

39He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.

40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness! How often they caused him grief in the desert!

41Again and again they tested God, and they pushed the Holy One of Israel to the limit.

42They did not remember his power— the day he freed them from their oppressor,

43when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the fields of Zoan.

44He turned their rivers into blood so that they could not drink from their streams.

45He sent a swarm of flies that bit them and frogs that ruined them.

46He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their produce to locusts.

47He killed their vines with hail and their fig trees with frost.

48He let the hail strike their cattle and bolts of lightning strike their livestock.

49He sent his burning anger, rage, fury, and hostility against them. He sent an army of destroying angels.

50He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them. He let the plague take their lives.

51He slaughtered every firstborn in Egypt, the ones born in the tents of Ham when their fathers were young.

52But he led his own people out like sheep and guided them like a flock through the wilderness.

53He led them safely. They had no fear while the sea covered their enemies.

54He brought them into his holy land, to this mountain that his power had won.

55He forced nations out of their way and gave them the land of the nations as their inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their own tents.