49He poured out upon them his blazing anger: *
fury, indignation, and distress,
a troop of destroying angels.
50He gave full rein to his anger;
he did not spare their souls from death; *
but delivered their lives to the plague.
51He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, *
the flower of manhood in the dwellings of Ham.
52He led out his people like sheep *
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53He led them to safety, and they were not afraid; *
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54He brought them to his holy land, *
the mountain his right hand had won.
55He drove out the Canaanites before them
and apportioned an inheritance to them by lot; *
he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56But they tested the Most High God, and defied him, *
and did not keep his commandments.
57They turned away and were disloyal like their fathers; *
they were undependable like a warped bow.
58They grieved him with their hill‑altars *
and provoked his displeasure with their idols.
59When God heard this, he was angry *
and utterly rejected Israel.
60He forsook the shrine at Shiloh, *
the tabernacle where he had lived among his people.
