Bible Reading Plan

³² Despite all this, they kept sinning
and did not believe His wonderful works.^(ae)
33 He made their days end in futility,
their years in sudden disaster.^(af)
34 When He killed some of them,
the rest began to seek Him;
they repented and searched for God.^(ag)
35 They remembered that God was their rock,
the Most High God, their Redeemer.^(ah)
36 But they deceived Him with their mouths,
they lied to Him with their tongues,^(ai)
37 their hearts were insincere toward Him,
and they were unfaithful to His covenant.^(aj)
38 Yet He was compassionate;
He atoned for^[f] their guilt
and did not destroy them.
He often turned His anger aside
and did not unleash^[g] all His wrath.^(ak)
39 He remembered that they were only flesh,
a wind that passes and does not return.^(al)

⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against Him
in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert.
⁴¹ They constantly tested God^(am)
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.^(an)
42 They did not remember His power shown
on the day He redeemed them from the foe,^(ao)
43 when He performed His miraculous signs in Egypt
and His wonders in the region of Zoan.^(ap)
44 He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.^(aq)
45 He sent among them swarms of flies,^(ar)
which fed on them,
and frogs, which devastated them.^(as)
46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.^(at)
47 He killed their vines with hail
and their sycamore fig trees with a flood.
⁴⁸ He handed over their livestock to hail
and their cattle to lightning bolts.^(au)
49 He sent His burning anger against them:
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.^[h](av)
50 He cleared a path for His anger.
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague.^(aw)
51 He struck all the firstborn^(ax) in Egypt,
the first progeny of the tents of Ham.^[i](ay)
52 He led His people out like sheep
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.^(az)
53 He led them safely, and they were not afraid;
but the sea covered their enemies.^(ba)
54 He brought them to His holy land,
to the mountain His right hand acquired.^(bb)
55 He drove out nations before them.^(bc)
He apportioned their inheritance by lot
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.^(bd)

⁵⁶ But they rebelliously tested the Most High God,
for they did not keep His decrees.^(be)
57 They treacherously turned away like their fathers;
they became warped like a faulty bow.^(bf)
58 They enraged Him with their high places
and provoked His jealousy with their carved images.^(bg)
59 God heard and became furious;
He completely rejected Israel.^(bh)
60 He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh,
the tent where He resided among men.^[j](bi)
61 He gave up His strength^[k] to captivity
and His splendor to the hand of a foe.^(bj)
62 He surrendered His people to the sword
because He was enraged with His heritage.^(bk)
63 Fire consumed His chosen young men,
and His young women had no wedding songs.^[l](bl)
64 His priests fell by the sword,
but the^[m] widows could not lament.^[n](bm)

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
like a warrior from the effects of wine.^(bn)
66 He beat back His foes;
He gave them lasting shame.^(bo)
67 He rejected the tent of Joseph
and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.
⁶⁸ He chose instead the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved.^(bp)
69 He built His sanctuary like the heights,^[o]
like the earth that He established forever.^(bq)
70 He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;^(br)
71 He brought him from tending ewes
to be shepherd over His people Jacob—
over Israel, His inheritance.^(bs)
72 He shepherded them with a pure heart
and guided them with his skillful hands.^(bt)