Through My Bible Yr 2 – June 13

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the desert
and grieved him in the wasteland!

⁴¹ Again and again they put God to the test;
they vexed the Holy One of Israel.

⁴² They did not remember his power—
the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,

⁴³ the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt,
his wonders in the region of Zoan.

⁴⁴ He turned their rivers to blood;
they could not drink from their streams.

⁴⁵ He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
and frogs that devastated them.

⁴⁶ He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
their produce to the locust.

⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail
and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

⁴⁸ He gave over their cattle to the hail,
their livestock to bolts of lightning.

⁴⁹ He unleashed against them his hot anger,
his wrath, indignation and hostility—
a band of destroying angels.

⁵⁰ He prepared a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death
but gave them over to the plague.

⁵¹ He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt,
the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

⁵² But he brought his people out like a flock;
he led them like sheep through the desert.

⁵³ He guided them safely, so they were unafraid;
but the sea engulfed their enemies.

⁵⁴ Thus he brought them to the border of his holy land,
to the hill country his right hand had taken.

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.

⁵⁶ But they put God to the test
and rebelled against the Most High;
they did not keep his statutes.

⁵⁷ Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless,
as unreliable as a faulty bow.

⁵⁸ They angered him with their high places;
they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

⁵⁹ When God heard them, he was very angry;
he rejected Israel completely.

⁶⁰ He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent he had set up among men.

⁶¹ He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
his splendor into the hands of the enemy.

⁶² He gave his people over to the sword;
he was very angry with his inheritance.

⁶³ Fire consumed their young men,
and their maidens had no wedding songs;

⁶⁴ their priests were put to the sword,
and their widows could not weep.

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
as a man wakes from the stupor of wine.

⁶⁶ He beat back his enemies;
he put them to everlasting shame.

⁶⁷ Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;

⁶⁸ but he chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which he loved.

⁶⁹ He built his sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth that he established forever.

⁷⁰ He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;

⁷¹ from tending the sheep he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.

⁷² And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with skillful hands he led them.

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright©1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.