Psalm 78:32-55

New International Version

³² In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;^(A)
    in spite of his wonders,^(B) they did not believe.^(C)
33 So he ended their days in futility^(D)
    and their years in terror.
³⁴ Whenever God slew them, they would seek^(E) him;
    they eagerly turned to him again.
³⁵ They remembered that God was their Rock,^(F)
    that God Most High was their Redeemer.^(G)
36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths,^(H)
    lying to him with their tongues;
³⁷ their hearts were not loyal^(I) to him,
    they were not faithful to his covenant.
³⁸ Yet he was merciful;^(J)
    he forgave^(K) their iniquities^(L)
    and did not destroy them.
Time after time he restrained his anger^(M)
    and did not stir up his full wrath.
³⁹ He remembered that they were but flesh,^(N)
    a passing breeze^(O) that does not return.

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled^(P) against him in the wilderness^(Q)
    and grieved him^(R) in the wasteland!
⁴¹ Again and again they put God to the test;^(S)
    they vexed the Holy One of Israel.^(T)
42 They did not remember^(U) his power—
    the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,^(V)
43 the day he displayed his signs^(W) in Egypt,
    his wonders^(X) in the region of Zoan.
⁴⁴ He turned their river into blood;^(Y)
    they could not drink from their streams.
⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies^(Z) that devoured them,
    and frogs^(AA) that devastated them.
⁴⁶ He gave their crops to the grasshopper,^(AB)
    their produce to the locust.^(AC)
47 He destroyed their vines with hail^(AD)
    and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
⁴⁸ He gave over their cattle to the hail,
    their livestock^(AE) to bolts of lightning.
⁴⁹ He unleashed against them his hot anger,^(AF)
    his wrath, indignation and hostility—
    a band of destroying angels.^(AG)
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,^(AH)
    the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.^(AI)
52 But he brought his people out like a flock;^(AJ)
    he led them like sheep through the wilderness.
⁵³ He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
    but the sea engulfed^(AK) their enemies.^(AL)
54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land,
    to the hill country his right hand^(AM) had taken.
⁵⁵ He drove out nations^(AN) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;^(AO)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.