Scripture Reading

Ps.78.40-Ps.78.55

Ps.78.40-Ps.78.55

Ps.78.40

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

Ps.78.40

How often in the desert they had spurned him, tried his patience in those wilderness years.

Ps.78.40

How often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved him in the wasteland!

Ps.78.40

How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, And grieved Him in the desert!

Ps.78.40

Oh, how often they rebelled against him in the desert and grieved his heart in the wilderness.

Ps.78.41

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Ps.78.41

Time and again they pushed him to the limit, provoked Israel's Holy God.

Ps.78.41

Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.

Ps.78.41

Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.

Ps.78.41

Again and again they tested God's patience and frustrated the Holy One of Israel.

Ps.78.42

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

Ps.78.42

How quickly they forgot what he'd done, forgot their day of rescue from the enemy,

Ps.78.42

They did not remember his power- the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,

Ps.78.42

They did not remember His power: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy,

Ps.78.42

They forgot about his power and how he rescued them from their enemies.

Ps.78.43

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

Ps.78.43

When he did miracles in Egypt, wonders on the plain of Zoan.

Ps.78.43

the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.

Ps.78.43

When He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan;

Ps.78.43

They forgot his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders on the plain of Zoan.

Ps.78.44

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

Ps.78.44

He turned the River and its streams to blood--not a drop of water fit to drink.

Ps.78.44

He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams.

Ps.78.44

Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, that they could not drink.

Ps.78.44

For he turned their rivers into blood, so no one could drink from the streams.

Ps.78.45

He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

Ps.78.45

He sent flies, which ate them alive, and frogs, which bedeviled them.

Ps.78.45

He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

Ps.78.45

He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, And frogs, which destroyed them.

Ps.78.45

He sent vast swarms of flies to consume them and hordes of frogs to ruin them.

Ps.78.46

He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

Ps.78.46

He turned their harvest over to caterpillars, everything they had worked for to the locusts.

Ps.78.46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.

Ps.78.46

He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.

Ps.78.46

He gave their crops to caterpillars; their harvest was consumed by locusts.

Ps.78.47

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

Ps.78.47

He flattened their grapevines with hail; a killing frost ruined their orchards.

Ps.78.47

He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

Ps.78.47

He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost.

Ps.78.47

He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamores with sleet.

Ps.78.48

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Ps.78.48

He pounded their cattle with hail, let thunderbolts loose on their herds.

Ps.78.48

He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Ps.78.48

He also gave up their cattle to the hail, And their flocks to fiery lightning.

Ps.78.48

He abandoned their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.

Ps.78.49

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

Ps.78.49

His anger flared, a wild firestorm of havoc, An advance guard of disease-carrying angels

Ps.78.49

He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility- a band of destroying angels.

Ps.78.49

He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, By sending angels of destruction among them.

Ps.78.49

He loosed on them his fierce anger--all his fury, rage, and hostility. He dispatched against them a band of destroying angels.

Ps.78.50

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

Ps.78.50

to clear the ground, preparing the way before him. He didn't spare those people, he let the plague rage through their lives.

Ps.78.50

He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

Ps.78.50

He made a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the plague,

Ps.78.50

He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians' lives but handed them over to the plague.

Ps.78.51

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

Ps.78.51

He killed all the Egyptian firstborns, lusty infants, offspring of Ham's virility.

Ps.78.51

He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

Ps.78.51

And destroyed all the firstborn in Egypt, The first of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Ps.78.51

He killed the oldest son in each Egyptian family, the flower of youth throughout the land of Egypt.

Ps.78.52

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

Ps.78.52

Then he led his people out like sheep, took his flock safely through the wilderness.

Ps.78.52

But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the desert.

Ps.78.52

But He made His own people go forth like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

Ps.78.52

But he led his own people like a flock of sheep, guiding them safely through the wilderness.

Ps.78.53

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

Ps.78.53

He took good care of them; they had nothing to fear. The Sea took care of their enemies for good.

Ps.78.53

He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.

Ps.78.53

And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Ps.78.53

He kept them safe so they were not afraid; but the sea closed in upon their enemies.

Ps.78.54

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

Ps.78.54

He brought them into his holy land, this mountain he claimed for his own.

Ps.78.54

Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.

Ps.78.54

And He brought them to His holy border, This mountain which His right hand had acquired.

Ps.78.54

He brought them to the border of his holy land, to this land of hills he had won for them.

Ps.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.

Ps.78.55

He scattered everyone who got in their way; he staked out an inheritance for them--the tribes of Israel all had their own places.

Ps.78.55

He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

Ps.78.55

He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them an inheritance by survey, And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Ps.78.55

He drove out the nations before them; he gave them their inheritance by lot. He settled the tribes of Israel into their homes.