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desert: and move him to wrath in the place with- 55 And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell
out water? in their tabernacles.
41 And they turned back and tempted God: 56 Yet they tempted, and provoked the most
and grieved the holy one of Israel. high God: and they kept not his testimonies.
42 They remembered not his hand, in the day 57 And they turned away, and kept not the
that he redeemed them from the hand of him covenant: even like their fathers they were
that afflicted them: turned aside as a crooked bow.
43 How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and 58 They provoked him to anger on their hills:
his wonders in the field of Tanis. and moved him to jealousy with their graven
44 And he turned their rivers into blood, and things.
their showers that they might not drink. 59 God heard, and despised them, and he re-
45 He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, duced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.
which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed 60 And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his
them. tabernacle where he dwelt among men.
46 And he gave up their fruits to the blast, 61 And he delivered their strength into cap-
and their labours to the locust. tivity: and their beauty into the hands of the
47 And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, enemy.
and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost. 62 And he shut up his people under the sword:
48 And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and and he despised his inheritance.
their stock to the fire. 63 Fire consumed their young men: and their
49 And he sent upon them the wrath of his maidens were not lamented.
indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, 64 Their priests fell by the sword: and their
which he sent by evil angels. widows did not mourn.
50 He made a way for a path to his anger: 65 And the Lord was awaked as one out of
he spared not their souls from death, and their sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been sur-
cattle he shut up in death. feited with wine.
51 And he killed all the firstborn in the land 66 And he smote his enemies on the hinder
of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.
tabernacles of Cham. 67 And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph:
52 And he took away his own people as sheep: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 68 But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion
53 And he brought them out in hope and they which he loved.
feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their ene- 69 And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns,
mies. in the land which he founded for ever.
54 And he brought them into the mountain 70 And he chose his servant David, and took
of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him
hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gen- from following the ewes great with young,
tiles before them: and by lot divided to them 71 To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his
their land by a line of distribution. inheritance.