Psalms 78 : 1 (ESV)
A MASKIL OF ASAPH. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
Psalms 78 : 2 (ESV)
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
Psalms 78 : 3 (ESV)
things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
Psalms 78 : 4 (ESV)
We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
Psalms 78 : 5 (ESV)
He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
Psalms 78 : 6 (ESV)
that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
Psalms 78 : 7 (ESV)
so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
Psalms 78 : 8 (ESV)
and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalms 78 : 9 (ESV)
The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
Psalms 78 : 10 (ESV)
They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
Psalms 78 : 11 (ESV)
They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
Psalms 78 : 12 (ESV)
In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
Psalms 78 : 13 (ESV)
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
Psalms 78 : 14 (ESV)
In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
Psalms 78 : 15 (ESV)
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
Psalms 78 : 16 (ESV)
He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
Psalms 78 : 17 (ESV)
Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
Psalms 78 : 18 (ESV)
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
Psalms 78 : 19 (ESV)
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
Psalms 78 : 20 (ESV)
He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?"
Psalms 78 : 21 (ESV)
Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,
Psalms 78 : 22 (ESV)
because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.
Psalms 78 : 23 (ESV)
Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven,
Psalms 78 : 24 (ESV)
and he rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven.
Psalms 78 : 25 (ESV)
Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
Psalms 78 : 26 (ESV)
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
Psalms 78 : 27 (ESV)
he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
Psalms 78 : 28 (ESV)
he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
Psalms 78 : 29 (ESV)
And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
Psalms 78 : 30 (ESV)
But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
Psalms 78 : 31 (ESV)
the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.
Psalms 78 : 32 (ESV)
In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe.
Psalms 78 : 33 (ESV)
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
Psalms 78 : 34 (ESV)
When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
Psalms 78 : 35 (ESV)
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
Psalms 78 : 36 (ESV)
But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
Psalms 78 : 37 (ESV)
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.
Psalms 78 : 38 (ESV)
Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalms 78 : 39 (ESV)
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
Psalms 78 : 40 (ESV)
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
Psalms 78 : 41 (ESV)
They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78 : 42 (ESV)
They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
Psalms 78 : 43 (ESV)
when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
Psalms 78 : 44 (ESV)
He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
Psalms 78 : 45 (ESV)
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalms 78 : 46 (ESV)
He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Psalms 78 : 47 (ESV)
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.
Psalms 78 : 48 (ESV)
He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.
Psalms 78 : 49 (ESV)
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
Psalms 78 : 50 (ESV)
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
Psalms 78 : 51 (ESV)
He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 78 : 52 (ESV)
Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalms 78 : 53 (ESV)
He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalms 78 : 54 (ESV)
And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
Psalms 78 : 55 (ESV)
He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Psalms 78 : 56 (ESV)
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,
Psalms 78 : 57 (ESV)
but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78 : 58 (ESV)
For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
Psalms 78 : 59 (ESV)
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
Psalms 78 : 60 (ESV)
He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
Psalms 78 : 61 (ESV)
and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
Psalms 78 : 62 (ESV)
He gave his people over to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage.
Psalms 78 : 63 (ESV)
Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no marriage song.
Psalms 78 : 64 (ESV)
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms 78 : 65 (ESV)
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
Psalms 78 : 66 (ESV)
And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
Psalms 78 : 67 (ESV)
He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalms 78 : 68 (ESV)
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
Psalms 78 : 69 (ESV)
He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.
Psalms 78 : 70 (ESV)
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalms 78 : 71 (ESV)
from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.
Psalms 78 : 72 (ESV)
With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.
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