41. Again and again they tested his patience. They really hurt the Holy One of Israel.
42. They forgot about his power. They forgot the many times he saved them from the enemy.
43. They forgot the miracles in Egypt, the miracles in the fields of Zoan.
44. God turned the rivers into blood, and the Egyptians could not drink the water.
45. He sent swarms of flies that bit them. He sent the frogs that ruined their lives.
46. He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their other plants to locusts.
47. He destroyed their vines with hail and their trees with sleet.
48. He killed their animals with hail and their cattle with lightning.
49. He showed the Egyptians his anger. He sent his destroying angels against them.
50. He found a way to show his anger. He did not spare their lives. He let them die with a deadly disease.
51. He killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt. He killed every firstborn in Ham’s family.
52. Then he led Israel like a shepherd. He led his people like sheep into the desert.
53. He guided them safely. They had nothing to fear. He drowned their enemies in the sea.
54. He led his people to his holy land, to the mountain he took with his own power.
55. He forced the other nations out before them and gave each family its share of the land. He gave each tribe of Israel a place to live.
56. But they tested God Most High and made him very sad. They didn’t obey his commands.
57. They turned against him and were unfaithful just like their ancestors. They changed directions like a boomerang.
58. They built high places and made God angry. They built statues of false gods and made him jealous.
59. God heard what they were doing and became very angry. So he rejected Israel completely!
60. He abandoned his place at Shiloh, the Holy Tent where he lived among the people.