Psalms 78:38-64

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.

56Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, And did not keep His testimonies,

57But turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

58For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.

59When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel,

60So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,

61And delivered His strength into captivity, And His glory into the enemy’s hand.

62He also gave His people over to the sword, And was furious with His inheritance.

63The fire consumed their young men, And their maidens were not given in marriage.

64Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows made no lamentation.