Psalms 78:43-68
43 When He performed His asigns in Egypt
And His bmarvels in the field of Zoan,
44 And cturned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 He sent swarms of dflies among them that devoured them,
And efrogs that destroyed them.
46 He also gave their crops to the fgrasshopper
And the product of their labor to the glocust.
47 He ▼
▼Lit was killing
destroyed their vines with ihailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.
48 He also turned their jcattle over to the hailstones,
And their herds to bolts of lightning.
49 He ksent His burning anger upon them,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
A band of ▼
▼Lit angels of evil ones; another reading is evil angels
destroying angels. 50 He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their souls from death,
But mturned their lives over to the plague,
51 And nstruck all the firstborn in Egypt,
The ofirst and best of their vigor in the tents of pHam.
52 But He qled His own people out like sheep,
And guided them in the wilderness rlike a flock;
53 He led them ssafely, so that they did not fear;
But tthe sea engulfed their enemies.
54 So uHe brought them to His holy ▼
▼Lit border, territory
land, To this ▼
▼Or mountain
xhill country ywhich His right hand had gained. 55 He also zdrove out the nations from them
And aaapportioned them as an inheritance by measurement,
And had the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
56 Yet they ▼
▼Or put to the test
actempted and adrebelled against the Most High God And did not keep His testimonies,
57 But turned back and aeacted treacherously like their fathers;
They afturned aside like a treacherous bow.
58 For they agprovoked Him with their ahhigh places
And aimoved Him to jealousy with their ajcarved images.
59 When God heard them, He ▼
▼Or became infuriated
was filled with alwrath And He utterly amrejected Israel;
60 So that He anabandoned the aodwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent ▼
▼Some ancient versions where He dwelt
which He had pitched among people, 61 And He gave up His aqstrength to captivity
And His glory arinto the hand of the enemy.
62 He also asturned His people over to the sword,
And ▼
▼Or became infuriated
was filled with wrath at His inheritance. 63 auFire devoured ▼
▼Or their
His young men, And ▼
▼Or their
His axvirgins had no wedding songs. 64 ▼
▼Or their
His azpriests fell by the sword, And ▼
▼Or their
His bbwidows could not weep. 65 Then the Lord bcawoke as if from sleep,
Like a bdwarrior ▼
▼Or sobered up from
overcome by wine. 66 He ▼
▼Lit struck
bgdrove His adversaries backward; He put on them an everlasting disgrace.
67 He also bhrejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount biZion, which He loved.
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