50. He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but 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 them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.
56. But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
57. Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.