^{43 Ref} How he set his signs in Egypt, His wonders in the field of Zoan,

^{44 Ref} Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

^{45 Ref} He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.

^{46 Ref} He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.

^{47 Ref} He destroyed their vines with hail, Their sycamore-fig trees with frost.

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

^{49 Ref} He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, And a band of angels of evil.

^{50 Ref} He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

^{51 Ref} And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

^{52 Ref} But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

^{53 Ref} He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

^{54 Ref} He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

^{55 Ref} He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

^{56 Ref} Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And didn't keep his testimonies;

^{57 Ref} But turned back, and dealt treacherously 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 engraved images.

^{59 Ref} When God heard this, he was angry, And greatly abhorred Israel;

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

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

^{62 Ref} He also gave his people over to the sword, And was angry with his inheritance.

^{63 Ref} Fire devoured their young men; Their virgins had no wedding song.

^{64 Ref} Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows couldn't weep.

^{65 Ref} Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

^{66 Ref} He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

^{67 Ref} Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, And didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

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

^{69 Ref} He built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he has established forever.

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

^{71 Ref} From following the ewes that have their young, He brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, And Israel, his inheritance.

^{72 Ref} So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.