Psalms 78:38-48

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.