Mar 28, 2022
40 How often they
rebelled against him in the wilderness
and grieved him in the
wasteland!
41 Again and again they put God to the
test;
they vexed the Holy One of
Israel.
42 They did not remember his
power—
the day he redeemed them from the
oppressor,
43 the day he displayed his signs in
Egypt,
his wonders in the region of
Zoan.
44 He turned their river into
blood;
they could not drink from their
streams.
45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured
them,
and frogs that devastated
them.
46 He gave their crops to the
grasshopper,
their produce to the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with
hail
and their sycamore-figs with
sleet.
48 He gave over their cattle to the
hail,
their livestock to bolts of
lightning.
49 He unleashed against them his hot
anger,
his wrath, indignation and
hostility—
a band of destroying angels.
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,
the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of
Ham.
52 But he brought his people out like a
flock;
he led them like sheep through the
wilderness.
53 He guided them safely, so they were
unafraid;
but the sea engulfed their
enemies.
54 And so he brought them to the border of
his holy land,
to the hill country his right hand had
taken.
55 He drove out nations before
them
and allotted their lands to them as an
inheritance;
he settled the tribes of Israel in their
homes.