40. How often they refused to obey him in the desert! How often they caused him sorrow in that dry and empty land!
41. Again and again they put God to the test. They made the Holy One of Israel sad and angry.
42. They didn't remember his power. They forgot the day he set them free from those who had beaten them down.
43. They forgot how he had shown them his miraculous signs in Egypt. They forgot his miracles in the area of Zoan.
44. He turned the rivers of Egypt into blood. The people of Egypt couldn't drink water from their streams.
45. He sent large numbers of flies that bit them. He sent frogs that destroyed their land.
46. He gave their crops to the grasshoppers. He gave their food to the locusts.
47. He destroyed their vines with hail. He destroyed their fig trees with sleet.
48. He killed their cattle with hail. Their livestock were struck by lightning.
49. He brought great trouble on Egypt by pouring out his blazing anger. In his hot anger he sent destroying angels against them.
50. God prepared a path for his anger. He didn't spare their lives. He gave them over to the plague.
51. He killed the oldest son of each family in Egypt. He struck down the oldest son in every house in the land of Ham.
52. But he brought his people out like a flock. He led them like sheep through the desert.