Psalm 78:30-51

English Standard Version

³⁰But before they had satisfied their craving,
    ^(A)while the food was still in their mouths,
³¹the anger of God rose against them,
    and he killed ^(B)the strongest of them
    and laid low ^(C)the young men of Israel.

³²In spite of all this, they ^(D)still sinned;
    ^(E)despite his wonders, they did not believe.
³³So he made ^(F)their days ^(G)vanish like^[a] a breath,^[b]
    and their years in terror.
³⁴When he killed them, they ^(H)sought him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.
³⁵They remembered that God was their ^(I)rock,
    the Most High God their ^(J)redeemer.
³⁶But they ^(K)flattered him with their mouths;
    they ^(L)lied to him with their tongues.
³⁷Their ^(M)heart was not ^(N)steadfast toward him;
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸Yet he, being ^(O)compassionate,
    ^(P)atoned for their iniquity
    and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
    and did not stir up all his wrath.
³⁹He ^(Q)remembered that they were but ^(R)flesh,
    ^(S)a wind that passes and comes not again.
⁴⁰How often they ^(T)rebelled against him in the wilderness
    and ^(U)grieved him in ^(V)the desert!
⁴¹They ^(W)tested God again and again
    and provoked ^(X)the Holy One of Israel.
⁴²They ^(Y)did not remember his power^[c]
    or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
⁴³^(Z)when he performed his ^(AA)signs in Egypt
    and his ^(AB)marvels in ^(AC)the fields of Zoan.
⁴⁴He ^(AD)turned their rivers to blood,
    so that they could not drink of their streams.
⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of ^(AE)flies, which devoured them,
    and ^(AF)frogs, which destroyed them.
⁴⁶He gave their crops to ^(AG)the destroying locust
    and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with ^(AH)hail
    and their sycamores with frost.
⁴⁸He gave over their ^(AI)cattle to the hail
    and their flocks to thunderbolts.
⁴⁹He let loose on them his burning anger,
    wrath, indignation, and distress,
    a company of ^(AJ)destroying angels.
⁵⁰He made a path for his anger;
    he did not spare them from death,
    but gave their lives over to the plague.
⁵¹He struck down every ^(AK)firstborn in Egypt,
    the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^(AL)Ham.