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Psalms 78:42-61 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

42. And they did not remember his power when he redeemed them from the enemy,

43. how he performed his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the region of Zoan,

44. when he turned their rivers to blood so they could not drink from their streams.

45. He sent among them flies that devoured them and frogs that destroyed them.

46. And he gave their crop to the locusts and their labor to the locust.

47. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore trees with sleet.

48. He also handed their cattle over to the hail and their livestock to the lightning bolts.

49. He sent against them his fierce anger, rage and indignation and trouble, a band of destroying angels.

50. He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but handed their life over to the plague.

51. And he struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the first of their virility in the tents of Ham.

52. Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them like a herd in the wilderness.

53. And he led them safely and they were not afraid, but the sea covered their enemies.

54. So he brought them to his holy territory, this mountain his right hand acquired.

55. And he drove out nations before them and allocated them for an inheritance by boundary line, and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

56. But they tested and rebelled against God Most High and did not keep his statutes.

57. And they turned and were treacherous like their ancestors. They twisted like a crooked bow.

58. For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and made him jealous with their images.

59. God heard and he was very angry and rejected Israel utterly.

60. So he abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh, the tent he had placed among humankind.

61. And he gave his strength into captivity and his splendor into the hand of the enemy.