Psalms 78:1

" [[Maschil of Asaph.]] Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. "

Psalms 78:2

" I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: "

Psalms 78:3

" Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told "

Psalms 78:4

" We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. "

Psalms 78:5

" For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: "

Psalms 78:6

" That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: "

Psalms 78:7

" That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: "

Psalms 78:8

" And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. "

Psalms 78:9

" The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. "

Psalms 78:10

" They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; "

Psalms 78:11

" And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed "

Psalms 78:12

" Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. "

Psalms 78:13

" He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. "

Psalms 78:14

" In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. "

Psalms 78:15

" He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. "

Psalms 78:16

" He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. "

Psalms 78:17

" And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. "

Psalms 78:18

" And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. "

Psalms 78:19

" Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? "

Psalms 78:20

" Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? "

Psalms 78:21

" Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; "

Psalms 78:22

" Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: "

Psalms 78:23

" Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, "

Psalms 78:24

" And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. "

Psalms 78:25

" Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. "

Psalms 78:26

" He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. "

Psalms 78:27

" He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: "

Psalms 78:28

" And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. "

Psalms 78:29

" So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; "

Psalms 78:30

" They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, "

Psalms 78:31

" The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. "

Psalms 78:32

" For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. "

Psalms 78:33

" Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. "

Psalms 78:34

" When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God. "

Psalms 78:35

" And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. "

Psalms 78:36

" Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. "

Psalms 78:37

" For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. "

Psalms 78:38

" But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. "

Psalms 78:39

" For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. "

Psalms 78:40

" How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! "

Psalms 78:41

" Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. "

Psalms 78:42

" They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. "

Psalms 78:43

" How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: "

Psalms 78:44

" And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. "

Psalms 78:45

" He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed "

Psalms 78:46

" He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. "

Psalms 78:47

" He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. "

Psalms 78:48

" He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. "

Psalms 78:49

" He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels "

Psalms 78:50

" He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; "

Psalms 78:51

" And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: "

Psalms 78:52

" But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. "

Psalms 78:53

" And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. "

Psalms 78:54

" And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. "

Psalms 78:55

" He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. "

Psalms 78:56

" Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: "

Psalms 78:57

" But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. "

Psalms 78:58

" For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. "

Psalms 78:59

" When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: "

Psalms 78:60

" So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; "

Psalms 78:61

" And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. "

Psalms 78:62

" He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. "

Psalms 78:63

" The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. "

Psalms 78:64

" Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. "

Psalms 78:65

" Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. "

Psalms 78:66

" And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. "

Psalms 78:67

" Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: "

Psalms 78:68

" But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. "

Psalms 78:69

" And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. "

Psalms 78:70

" He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: "

Psalms 78:71

" From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. "

Psalms 78:72

" So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. "

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