78:44 He turned their rivers into blood,
and they could not drink from their streams.
78:45 He sent swarms of biting insects against them, 1
as well as frogs that overran their land. 2
78:46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
the fruit of their labor to the locust.
78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail,
and their sycamore-fig trees with driving rain.
78:48 He rained hail down on their cattle, 3
and hurled lightning bolts down on their livestock. 4
78:49 His raging anger lashed out against them, 5
He sent fury, rage, and trouble
as messengers who bring disaster. 6
78:50 He sent his anger in full force; 7
he did not spare them from death;
he handed their lives over to destruction. 8
78:51 He struck down all the firstborn in Egypt,
the firstfruits of their reproductive power 9 in the tents of Ham.