^{43 Ref} How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.

^{44 Ref} And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

^{45 Ref} He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

^{46 Ref} He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

^{47 Ref} He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

^{48 Ref} He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

^{49 Ref} He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

^{50 Ref} He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

^{51 Ref} And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

^{52 Ref} But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

^{53 Ref} And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

^{54 Ref} And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

^{55 Ref} 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.

^{56 Ref} Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

^{57 Ref} But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

^{58 Ref} For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

^{59 Ref} When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

^{60 Ref} So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

^{61 Ref} And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

^{62 Ref} He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

^{63 Ref} The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

^{64 Ref} Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

^{65 Ref} Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

^{66 Ref} And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

^{67 Ref} Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

^{68 Ref} But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

^{69 Ref} And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

^{70 Ref} He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

^{71 Ref} From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

^{72 Ref} So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.