Jehovah "made a path for His anger" in Egypt. He cast on the Egyptians "the fierceness of His anger, wrath, indignation and trouble, by sending angels of destruction among them" (Psalm 78:49; NKJV). Jehovah of Hosts did not spare.
Israel should have learned from this not to provoke, grieve, tempt and limit Jehovah (Psalm 78:40). "They did not remember His power" (Psalm 78:41; NKJV). Jehovah's own people brought His wrath upon them.
Learn from the past. Know His power. Avoid His wrath.
Psalm 78:40-55; ASV
40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 And they turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 They remember not his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
43 How he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan,
44 And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the locust.
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore-trees with frost.
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a band of angels of evil.
50 He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
51 And smote all the first-born in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
55 He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
