40  How often they ^zrebelled against him in the wilderness

and grieved him in the desert!

41  They tested God again and again

and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

42  They did not remember his power¹

or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,

43  ^awhen he performed his signs in Egypt

and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.

44  ^bHe turned their rivers to blood,

so that they could not drink of their streams.

45  ^cHe sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them,

and ^dfrogs, which destroyed them.

46  ^eHe gave their crops to the destroying locust

and the fruit of their labor to the locust.

47  ^fHe destroyed their vines with hail

and their sycamores with frost.

48  ^gHe gave over their cattle to the hail

and their flocks to thunderbolts.

49  He let loose on them his burning anger,

wrath, indignation, and distress,

a company of destroying angels.

50  He made a path for his anger;

he did not spare them from death,

but gave their lives over to the plague.

51  ^hHe struck down every firstborn in Egypt,

ⁱthe firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.

52  Then he led out his people like sheep

and ^jguided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53  He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid,

^kbut the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54  And he ^lbrought them to his holy land,

^mto the mountain which his right hand had won.

55  He ⁿdrove out nations before them;

^ohe apportioned them for a possession

and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

56  Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God

and did not keep his testimonies,

57  but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;

they twisted ^plike a deceitful bow.

58  ^qFor they provoked him to anger with their high places;

they moved him to jealousy with their idols.

59  When God heard, he was full of wrath,

and he utterly ^rrejected Israel.

60  ^sHe forsook his dwelling at Shiloh,

the tent where he dwelt among mankind,

61  and delivered his ^tpower to captivity,

^uhis glory to the hand of the foe.

62  He gave his people over to the sword

and vented his wrath on his heritage.

63  Fire devoured their young men,

and their young women had no marriage song.

64  Their ^vpriests fell by the sword,

and their ^wwidows made no lamentation.

65  Then the Lord ^xawoke as from sleep,

like a strong man shouting because of wine.

66  And he put his adversaries to rout;

he put them to everlasting shame.