46. He gave their crops to the grasshopper,their produce to the locust.
47. He destroyed their vines with hailand their sycamore-figs with sleet.
48. He gave over their cattle to the hail,their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49. He unleashed against them his hot anger,his wrath, indignation and hostility –a band of destroying angels.
50. He prepared a path for his anger;he did not spare them from deathbut gave them over to the plague.
51. He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.
52. But he brought his people out like a flock;he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
53. He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;but the sea engulfed their enemies.
54. And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,to the hill country his right hand had taken.
55. He drove out nations before themand allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56. But they put God to the testand rebelled against the Most High;they did not keep his statutes.