Psalms 78:38-48

38Yet he was merciful and forgave their sins and did not destroy them all. Many times he held back his anger and did not unleash his fury!

39For he remembered that they were merely mortal, gone like a breath of wind that never returns.

40Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved his heart in that dry wasteland.

41Again and again they tested God’s patience and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42They did not remember his power and how he rescued them from their enemies.

43They did not remember his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan.

44For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams.

45He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them.

46He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts.

47He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.

48He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.