48. He abandoned their cattle to the hail,their livestock to bolts of lightning.
49. He loosed on them his fierce anger—all his fury, rage, and hostility.He dispatched against thema band of destroying angels.
50. He turned his anger against them;he did not spare the Egyptians’ livesbut ravaged them with the plague.
51. He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family,the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.
52. But he led his own people like a flock of sheep,guiding them safely through the wilderness.
53. He kept them safe so they were not afraid;but the sea covered their enemies.
54. He brought them to the border of his holy land,to this land of hills he had won for them.
55. He drove out the nations before them;he gave them their inheritance by lot.He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.
56. But they kept testing and rebelling against God Most High.They did not obey his laws.
57. They turned back and were as faithless as their parents.They were as undependable as a crooked bow.
58. They angered God by building shrines to other gods;they made him jealous with their idols.