English Bible Presentation Sharing - Psalms Book, chapter 78, verse 136 in Lxxen Version

Psalms 78 : 1 (LXXEN)

*Gr. understanding - Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

Psalms 78 : 2 (LXXEN)

*Mt 13:35 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning.

Psalms 78 : 3 (LXXEN)

All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.

Psalms 78 : 4 (LXXEN)

They were not hid from their children to a second generations; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought.

Psalms 78 : 5 (LXXEN)

And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children:

Psalms 78 : 6 (LXXEN)

that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children.

Psalms 78 : 7 (LXXEN)

That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments.

Psalms 78 : 8 (LXXEN)

That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not *Or, faithfully secured steadfast with God.

Psalms 78 : 9 (LXXEN)

The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle.

Psalms 78 : 10 (LXXEN)

They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.

Psalms 78 : 11 (LXXEN)

And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he had shewed them;

Psalms 78 : 12 (LXXEN)

the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes.

Psalms 78 : 13 (LXXEN)

He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

Psalms 78 : 14 (LXXEN)

And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.

Psalms 78 : 15 (LXXEN)

he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.

Psalms 78 : 16 (LXXEN)

And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers.

Psalms 78 : 17 (LXXEN)

And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness.

Psalms 78 : 18 (LXXEN)

And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls.

Psalms 78 : 19 (LXXEN)

They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78 : 20 (LXXEN)

Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people?

Psalms 78 : 21 (LXXEN)

Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel.

Psalms 78 : 22 (LXXEN)

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

Psalms 78 : 23 (LXXEN)

Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

Psalms 78 : 24 (LXXEN)

and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven.

Psalms 78 : 25 (LXXEN)

Man ate angels’ bread; *Mt 6:31 he sent them provision to the full.

Psalms 78 : 26 (LXXEN)

He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the south-west wind.

Psalms 78 : 27 (LXXEN)

And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas.

Psalms 78 : 28 (LXXEN)

And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents.

Psalms 78 : 29 (LXXEN)

So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.

Psalms 78 : 30 (LXXEN)

They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth,

Psalms 78 : 31 (LXXEN)

then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.

Psalms 78 : 32 (LXXEN)

In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles.

Psalms 78 : 33 (LXXEN)

And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.

Psalms 78 : 34 (LXXEN)

When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God.

Psalms 78 : 35 (LXXEN)

And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.

Psalms 78 : 36 (LXXEN)

Yet they loved him only with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

Psalms 78 : 37 (LXXEN)

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

Psalms 78 : 38 (LXXEN)

But he is compassionate, and will *Gr. be propitious, or, merciful to forgive their sins, and will not destroy them: yea, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger.

Psalms 78 : 39 (LXXEN)

And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not.

Psalms 78 : 40 (LXXEN)

How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and anger him in a dry land!

Psalms 78 : 41 (LXXEN)

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

Psalms 78 : 42 (LXXEN)

They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.

Psalms 78 : 43 (LXXEN)

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

Psalms 78 : 44 (LXXEN)

and had changed their rivers into blood; and their *Gr. rains, or, showers streams, that they should not drink.

Psalms 78 : 45 (LXXEN)

He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them.

Psalms 78 : 46 (LXXEN)

And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labours to the locust.

Psalms 78 : 47 (LXXEN)

He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.

Psalms 78 : 48 (LXXEN)

And he gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire.

Psalms 78 : 49 (LXXEN)

He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels.

Psalms 78 : 50 (LXXEN)

He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death;

Psalms 78 : 51 (LXXEN)

and smote every first-born in the land of Egypt; the first-fruits of their labours in the tents of Cham.

Psalms 78 : 52 (LXXEN)

And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness.

Psalms 78 : 53 (LXXEN)

And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies.

Psalms 78 : 54 (LXXEN)

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

Psalms 78 : 55 (LXXEN)

And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Psalms 78 : 56 (LXXEN)

Ye they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies.

Psalms 78 : 57 (LXXEN)

And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow.

Psalms 78 : 58 (LXXEN)

And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Psalms 78 : 59 (LXXEN)

God heard and *Lit. overlooked them; See Ac 17:30 lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel.

Psalms 78 : 60 (LXXEN)

And he rejected the tabernacle of Selom, his tent where he dwelt among men.

Psalms 78 : 61 (LXXEN)

And he gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy’s hand.

Psalms 78 : 62 (LXXEN)

And he *Gr. shut up gave his people to the sword; and disdained his inheritance.

Psalms 78 : 63 (LXXEN)

Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not.

Psalms 78 : 64 (LXXEN)

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for.

Psalms 78 : 65 (LXXEN)

So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a mighty man who has been heated with wine.

Psalms 78 : 66 (LXXEN)

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he brought on them a perpetual reproach.

Psalms 78 : 67 (LXXEN)

And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

Psalms 78 : 68 (LXXEN)

but chose the tribe of Juda, the mount Sion which he loved.

Psalms 78 : 69 (LXXEN)

And he built his sanctuary as the place of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth.

Psalms 78 : 70 (LXXEN)

He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep.

Psalms 78 : 71 (LXXEN)

He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.

Psalms 78 : 72 (LXXEN)

So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.