• Psalms 78:1

    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 us.

  • 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 carryinga 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 them.

  • 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 furnishb 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

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

  • Psalms 78:26

    He caused an east wind to blowd 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 featherede 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 provokef 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 wroughtg 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 them.

  • Psalms 78:46

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

  • Psalms 78:47

    He destroyedh 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 among them.

  • Psalms 78:50

    He madei 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 overwhelmedj 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 establishedk for ever.

  • Psalms 78:70

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

  • Psalms 78:71

    From followingl 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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