Psalm 78:43-68 — Legacy Standard Bible

⁴³When He performed His ^asigns in EgyptAnd His ^bmiracles in the field of Zoan,⁴⁴And ^aturned their rivers to blood,And their streams, they could not drink.⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of ^aflies which devoured them,And ^bfrogs which destroyed them.⁴⁶He gave also their crops to the ^agrasshopperAnd the fruit of their labor to the ^blocust.⁴⁷He killed their vines with ^ahailstonesAnd their sycamore trees with frost.⁴⁸He gave over their ^acattle also to the hailstonesAnd their herds to bolts of lightning.⁴⁹He ^asent upon them His burning anger,Fury and indignation and ¹distress,²A band of destroying angels.⁵⁰He leveled a path for His anger;He did not hold back their soul from death,But ^agave over their life to the plague,⁵¹So He ^astruck all the firstborn in Egypt,The ^bfirst of their vigor in the tents of ^cHam.⁵²But He ^aled forth His own people like sheepAnd guided them in the wilderness ^blike a flock;⁵³He led them ^asafely, so that they did not fear;But ^bthe sea covered their enemies.⁵⁴So ^aHe brought them to His holy ¹land,To this ²^,^bhill country ^cwhich His right hand had acquired.⁵⁵He also ^adrove out the nations before themAnd ^bapportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.⁵⁶Yet they ¹^,^atested and ^brebelled against the Most High GodAnd did not keep His testimonies,⁵⁷But turned back and ^aacted treacherously like their fathers;They ^bturned aside like a treacherous bow.⁵⁸For they ^aprovoked Him with their ^bhigh placesAnd ^caroused His jealousy with their ^dgraven images.⁵⁹God heard and ¹was filled with ^awrathAnd greatly ^brejected Israel;⁶⁰So that He ^aabandoned the ^bdwelling place at Shiloh,The tent ¹which He caused to dwell among men,⁶¹And gave up His ^astrength to captivityAnd His beauty ^binto the hand of the adversary.⁶²He also ^agave over His people to the sword,And ¹was filled with wrath at His inheritance.⁶³^aFire devoured ¹His choice men,And ²His ^bvirgins had no wedding songs.⁶⁴¹His ^apriests fell by the sword,And ²His ^bwidows could not weep.⁶⁵Then the Lord ^aawoke as if from sleep,As if He were a ^bwarrior ¹overcome by wine.⁶⁶He ^astruck His adversaries backward;He put on them an everlasting reproach.⁶⁷He also ^arejected the tent of Joseph,And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,⁶⁸But chose the tribe of Judah,Mount ^aZion which He loved.