Psalms 78:32-55

32Despite all this, they continued to sin, and did not trust him to do amazing things.

33So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

34When he struck them down, they sought his favor; they turned back and longed for God.

35They remembered that God was their protector, and that the sovereign God was their deliverer.

36But they deceived him with their words, and lied to him.

37They were not really committed to him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant.

38Yet he is compassionate. He forgives sin and does not destroy. He often holds back his anger, and does not stir up his fury.

39He remembered that they were made of flesh, and were like a wind that blows past and does not return.

40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and insulted him in the desert!

41They again challenged God, and offended the Holy One of Israel.

42They did not remember what he had done, how he delivered them from the enemy,

43when he performed his awesome deeds in Egypt, and his acts of judgment in the region of Zoan.

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

45He sent swarms of biting insects against them, as well as frogs that overran their land.

46He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.

48He rained hail down on their cattle, and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock.

49His raging anger lashed out against them, He sent fury, rage, and trouble as messengers who bring disaster.

50He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

51He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their reproductive power in the tents of Ham.

52Yet he brought out his people like sheep; he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

53He guided them safely along, while the sea covered their enemies.

54He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this mountainous land which his right hand acquired.

55He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.