40. How often they rebelled against God in the wildernessand distressed him in the desert!
41. Time and time again they tested God,provoking the holy one of Israel.
42. They didn’t remember God’s power—the day when he saved them from the enemy;
43. how God performed his signs in Egypt,his marvelous works in the field of Zoan.
44. God turned their rivers into blood;they couldn’t drink from their own streams.
45. God sent swarms against them to eat them up,frogs to destroy them.
46. God handed over their crops to caterpillars,their land’s produce to locusts.
47. God killed their vines with hail,their sycamore trees with frost.
48. God delivered their cattle over to disease,their herds to plagues.
49. God unleashed his burning anger against them—fury, indignation, distress,a troop of evil messengers.
50. God blazed a path for his wrath.He didn’t save them from death,but delivered their lives over to disease.
51. God struck down all of Egypt’s oldest males;in Ham’s tents, he struck their pride and joy.