Psalms 78:32-55

32In spite of this they still sinned, And did not believe in His wondrous works.

33Therefore their days He consumed in futility, And their years in fear.

34When He slew them, then they sought Him; And they returned and sought earnestly for God.

35Then they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their Redeemer.

36Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth, And they lied to Him with their tongue;

37For their heart was not steadfast with Him, Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

38But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, And did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His anger away, And did not stir up all His wrath;

39For He remembered that they were but flesh, A breath that passes away and does not come again.

40How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!

41Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.

42They did not remember His power: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

43When He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan;

44Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink.

45He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, And frogs, which destroyed them.

46He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.

47He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost.

48He also gave up their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to fiery lightning.

49He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, By sending angels of destruction among them.

50He made a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the plague,

51And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt, The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52But He made His own people go forth like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

53And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain which His right hand had acquired.

55He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.