Psalms 78:32-55

32Despite all this they sinned still more, and did not trust in His wonders.

33So He ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

34But when He slew them, then they sought Him, and turned back, and desired God eagerly.

35Then they remembered that God was their Rock and El Elyon their Redeemer.

36But they flattered Him with their mouth and kept lying to Him with their tongue.

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

38But He is compassionate, forgives iniquity and does not destroy. Yes, many times He restrains His anger, and does not stir up all His wrath.

39For He remembered that they are but flesh, a passing breath that never returns.

40How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!

41Again and again they tested God, and pained the Holy One of Israel.

42They did not remember His hand— the day He redeemed them from the foe,

43when He displayed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the plain of Zoan.

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

45He sent on them flies to devour them, and frogs to devastate them,

46and gave their crops to the grasshopper, and their labor to the locust.

47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost,

48and gave over their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.

49He sent on them the fury of His anger —wrath and indignation and trouble— a band of evil angels.

50He cleared a path for His anger. He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague.

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

52But He brought His people out like sheep, and led them in the wilderness like a flock.

53He led them to safety, so they did not fear, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54Then He brought them to His holy territory, to the mountain His right hand had gotten.

55He drove out nations before them, and allotted them an inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.