Psalms:78:48: He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms:78:49: He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
Psalms:78:50: He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms:78:51: And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psalms:78:52: But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms:78:53: And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms:78:54: And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
Psalms:78:55: 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.
Psalms:78:56: Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psalms:78:57: But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms:78:58: For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms:78:59: When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psalms:78:60: So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
Psalms:78:61: And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.
Psalms:78:62: He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Psalms:78:63: The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Psalms:78:64: Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms:78:65: Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms:78:66: And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms:78:67: Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psalms:78:68: But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms:78:69: And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Psalms:78:70: He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalms:78:71: From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Psalms:78:72: So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Chapter 79
Psalms:79:1: O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
Psalms:79:2: The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.
Psalms:79:3: Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Psalms:79:4: We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.
