43 When He performed His signs in Egypt
And His marvels in the field of Zoan, | |
44 And turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, they could not drink. | |
45 He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them. | |
46 He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the locust. | |
47 Hex Lit was killingdestroyed their vines with hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost. | |
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones
And their herds to bolts of lightning. | |
49 He sent upon them His burning anger,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
y Lit A deputation of angels of evilA band of destroying angels. | |
50 He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave over their life to the plague, | |
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham. | |
52 But He led forth His own people like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock; | |
53 He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies. | |
54 So He brought them to His holyz Lit border, territoryland,
To thisaa Or mountainhill country which His right hand had gained. | |
55 He also drove out the nations before them
And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents. | |
56 Yet theyab Or put to the testtempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies, | |
57 But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;
They turned aside like a treacherous bow. | |
58 For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images. | |
59 When God heard, Heac Or became infuriatedwas filled with wrath
And greatly abhorred Israel; | |
60 So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tentad Some ancient versions read where He dweltwhich He had pitched among men, | |
61 And gave up His strength to captivity
And His glory into the hand of the adversary. | |
62 He also delivered His people to the sword,
Andae Or became infuriatedwas filled with wrath at His inheritance. | |
63 Fire devouredaf Or theirHis young men,
Andag Or theirHis virgins had no wedding songs. | |
64 ah Or theirHis priests fell by the sword,
Andai Or theirHis widows could not weep. | |
65 Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a warrioraj Or sobered up fromovercome by wine. | |
66 Heak Lit smotedrove His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting reproach. | |
67 He also rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, | |
68 But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loved. | |
