He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost (78:47)

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts (78:48)

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them (78:49)

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence (78:50)

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham (78:51)

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock (78:52)

And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies (78:53)

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased (78:54)

He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents (78:55)

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies (78:56)

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow (78:57)

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images (78:58)

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel (78:59)

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men (78:60)

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand (78:61)

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance (78:62)

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage (78:63)

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation (78:64)

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine (78:65)

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach (78:66)

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim (78:67)

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved (78:68)

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever (78:69)

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds (78:70)

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance (78:71)

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands (78:72)

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