Psalms 78:42-52

42 How quickly they forgot what he'd done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy,
43 When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan.
44 He turned the River and its streams to blood - not a drop of water fit to drink.
45 He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which bedeviled them.
46 He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts.
47 He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards.
48 He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds.
49 His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels
50 to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives.
51 He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham's virility.
52 Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness.
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