Psalm 78:43-72 - Heartlight

⁴³when He performed His signs in Egypt

and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

⁴⁴He turned their rivers to blood,

and from their streams they could not drink.

⁴⁵He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,

and frogs that devastated them.

⁴⁶He gave their crops to the grasshopper,

the fruit of their labor to the locust.

⁴⁷He killed their vines with hailstones

and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

⁴⁸He abandoned their cattle to the hail

and their livestock to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹He unleashed His fury against them,

wrath, indignation, and calamity —

a band of destroying angels.

⁵⁰He cleared a path for His anger;

He did not spare them from death

but delivered their lives to the plague.

⁵¹He struck all the firstborn of Egypt,

the virility in the tents of Ham.

⁵²He led out His people like sheep

and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.

⁵³He led them safely, so they did not fear,

but the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴He brought them to His holy land,

to the mountain His right hand had acquired.

⁵⁵He drove out nations before them

and apportioned their inheritance;

He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

⁵⁶But they tested and disobeyed God Most High,

for they did not keep His decrees.

⁵⁷They turned back and were faithless like their fathers,

twisted like a faulty bow.

⁵⁸They enraged Him with their high places

and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

⁵⁹On hearing it, God was furious

and rejected Israel completely.

⁶⁰He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,

the tent He had pitched among men.

⁶¹He delivered His strength to captivity,

and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.

⁶²He surrendered His people to the sword

because He was enraged by His heritage.

⁶³Fire consumed His young men,

and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

⁶⁴His priests fell by the sword,

but their widows could not lament.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,

like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

⁶⁶He beat back His foes;

He put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷He rejected the tent of Joseph

and refused the tribe of Ephraim.

⁶⁸But He chose the tribe of Judah,

Mount Zion, which He loved.

⁶⁹He built His sanctuary like the heights,

like the earth He has established forever.

⁷⁰He chose David His servant

and took him from the sheepfolds;

⁷¹from tending the ewes He brought him

to be shepherd of His people Jacob,

of Israel His inheritance.

⁷²So David shepherded them with integrity of heart

and guided them with skillful hands.

— Psalm 78:43-72

(BSB)

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