Psalm 78:40-55
How often they refused to obey him in the desert!
How often they caused him sorrow in that dry and empty land!
Again and again they tested God.
They made the Holy One of Israel sad and angry.
They didn’t remember his power.
They forgot the day he set them free
from those who had treated them so badly.
They forgot how he had shown them his signs in Egypt.
They forgot his miracles in the area of Zoan.
He turned the river of Egypt into blood.
The people of Egypt couldn’t drink water from their streams.
He sent large numbers of flies that bit them.
He sent frogs that destroyed their land.
He gave their crops to the grasshoppers.
He gave their food to the locusts.
He destroyed their vines with hail.
He destroyed their fig trees with sleet.
He killed their cattle with hail.
Their livestock were struck by lightning.
Because he was so angry with Egypt, he caused them to have great trouble.
In his great anger he sent destroying angels against them.
God prepared a path for his anger.
He didn’t spare their lives.
He gave them over to the plague.
He killed the oldest son of each family in Egypt.
He struck down the oldest son in every house in the land of Ham.
But he brought his people out like a flock.
He led them like sheep through the desert.
He guided them safely, and they weren’t afraid.
But the Red Sea swallowed up their enemies.
And so he brought his people to the border of his holy land.
He led them to the central hill country he had taken by his power.
He drove out the nations to make room for his people.
He gave to each family a piece of land to pass on to their children.
He gave the tribes of Israel a place to make their homes.
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