Psalm 78:43-68
Christian Standard Bible
43 when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt
and his wonders in the territory of Zoan.(A)
44 He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.(B)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies,(C)
which fed on them,
and frogs, which devastated them.(D)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.(E)
47 He killed their vines with hail
and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.
48 He handed over their livestock to hail
and their cattle to lightning bolts.(F)
49 He sent his burning anger against them:
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.[a](G)
50 He cleared a path for his anger.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.(H)
51 He struck all the firstborn(I) in Egypt,
the first progeny of the tents of Ham.(J)
52 He led his people out like sheep
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.(K)
53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.(L)
54 He brought them to his holy territory,
to the mountain his right hand acquired.(M)
55 He drove out nations before them.(N)
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.(O)
56 But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep his decrees.(P)
57 They treacherously turned away like their ancestors;
they became warped like a faulty bow.(Q)
58 They enraged him with their high places
and provoked his jealousy with their carved images.(R)
59 God heard and became furious;
he completely rejected Israel.(S)
60 He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where he resided among mankind.(T)
61 He gave up his strength to captivity
and his splendor to the hand of a foe.(U)
62 He surrendered his people to the sword
because he was enraged with his heritage.(V)
63 Fire consumed his chosen young men,
and his young women had no wedding songs.[b](W)
64 His priests fell by the sword,
and the widows could not lament.(X)
65 The Lord awoke as if from sleep,
like a warrior from the effects of wine.(Y)
66 He beat back his foes;
he gave them lasting disgrace.(Z)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
68 He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.(AA)
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