Psalms 78 : 1 (ASV)
Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 78 : 2 (ASV)
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
Psalms 78 : 3 (ASV)
Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
Psalms 78 : 4 (ASV)
We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
Psalms 78 : 5 (ASV)
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 (ASV)
That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,
Psalms 78 : 7 (ASV)
That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
Psalms 78 : 8 (ASV)
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 (ASV)
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
Psalms 78 : 10 (ASV)
They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
Psalms 78 : 11 (ASV)
And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
Psalms 78 : 12 (ASV)
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78 : 13 (ASV)
He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
Psalms 78 : 14 (ASV)
In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
Psalms 78 : 15 (ASV)
He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Psalms 78 : 16 (ASV)
He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
Psalms 78 : 17 (ASV)
Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Psalms 78 : 18 (ASV)
And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.
Psalms 78 : 19 (ASV)
Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psalms 78 : 20 (ASV)
Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
Psalms 78 : 21 (ASV)
Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;
Psalms 78 : 22 (ASV)
Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.
Psalms 78 : 23 (ASV)
Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;
Psalms 78 : 24 (ASV)
And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.
Psalms 78 : 25 (ASV)
Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
Psalms 78 : 26 (ASV)
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.
Psalms 78 : 27 (ASV)
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
Psalms 78 : 28 (ASV)
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.
Psalms 78 : 29 (ASV)
So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
Psalms 78 : 30 (ASV)
They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 78 : 31 (ASV)
When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
Psalms 78 : 32 (ASV)
For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.
Psalms 78 : 33 (ASV)
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
Psalms 78 : 34 (ASV)
When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
Psalms 78 : 35 (ASV)
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.
Psalms 78 : 36 (ASV)
But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.
Psalms 78 : 37 (ASV)
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Psalms 78 : 38 (ASV)
But he, being merciful, 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 (ASV)
And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Psalms 78 : 40 (ASV)
How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
Psalms 78 : 41 (ASV)
And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78 : 42 (ASV)
They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
Psalms 78 : 43 (ASV)
How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
Psalms 78 : 44 (ASV)
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.
Psalms 78 : 45 (ASV)
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms 78 : 46 (ASV)
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.
Psalms 78 : 47 (ASV)
He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.
Psalms 78 : 48 (ASV)
He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psalms 78 : 49 (ASV)
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.
Psalms 78 : 50 (ASV)
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
Psalms 78 : 51 (ASV)
And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 78 : 52 (ASV)
But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 78 : 53 (ASV)
And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms 78 : 54 (ASV)
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
Psalms 78 : 55 (ASV)
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.
Psalms 78 : 56 (ASV)
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
Psalms 78 : 57 (ASV)
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78 : 58 (ASV)
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 78 : 59 (ASV)
When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;
Psalms 78 : 60 (ASV)
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;
Psalms 78 : 61 (ASV)
And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversarys hand.
Psalms 78 : 62 (ASV)
He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.
Psalms 78 : 63 (ASV)
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
Psalms 78 : 64 (ASV)
Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms 78 : 65 (ASV)
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psalms 78 : 66 (ASV)
And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psalms 78 : 67 (ASV)
Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalms 78 : 68 (ASV)
But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
Psalms 78 : 69 (ASV)
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Psalms 78 : 70 (ASV)
He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalms 78 : 71 (ASV)
From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Psalms 78 : 72 (ASV)
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. Psalm 79 A Psalm of Asaph.
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