Psalms Chapter 78
78:1 | Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. |
78:2 | I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: |
78:3 | Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. |
78:4 | We will not hide [them] from their children, showing to the ![]() |
78:5 | For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in ![]() |
78:6 | That the ![]() |
78:7 | That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: |
78:8 | And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious ![]() ![]() ![]() |
78:9 | The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the ![]() |
78:10 | They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
78:11 | And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. |
78:12 | Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan. |
78:13 | He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the ![]() |
78:14 | In the daytime also he led them with a ![]() |
78:15 | He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] ![]() |
78:16 | He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused ![]() |
78:17 | And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. |
78:18 | And they tempted God in their heart by asking ![]() |
78:19 | ![]() |
78:20 | Behold, he smote the rock, that the ![]() ![]() |
78:21 | Therefore the LORD heard [this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against ![]() |
78:22 | Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: |
78:23 | Though he had commanded the ![]() |
78:24 | And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the ![]() |
78:25 | Man did eat angels' ![]() ![]() |
78:26 | He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his ![]() |
78:27 | He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: |
78:28 | And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. |
78:29 | So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; |
78:30 | They were not estranged from their lust. But while their ![]() |
78:31 | The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of ![]() |
78:32 | For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. |
78:33 | Therefore their ![]() |
78:34 | When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God. |
78:35 | And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer. |
78:36 | Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. |
78:37 | For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. |
78:38 | But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: ![]() ![]() |
78:39 | For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. |
78:40 | How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert! |
78:41 | ![]() ![]() |
78:42 | They remembered not his hand, [nor] the ![]() |
78:43 | How he had wrought his ![]() |
78:44 | And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not ![]() |
78:45 | He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. |
78:46 | He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. |
78:47 | He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. |
78:48 | He gave up their ![]() |
78:49 | He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending ![]() |
78:50 | He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from ![]() |
78:51 | And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham: |
78:52 | But made his own people to go forth like ![]() |
78:53 | And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
78:54 | And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased. |
78:55 | He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of ![]() |
78:56 | Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: |
78:57 | But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
78:58 | For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
78:59 | When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred ![]() |
78:60 | So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men; |
78:61 | And delivered his strength into captivity, and his ![]() |
78:62 | He gave his people over also unto the ![]() |
78:63 | The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. |
78:64 | Their priests fell by the ![]() |
78:65 | Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of ![]() |
78:66 | And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. |
78:67 | Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: |
78:68 | But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. |
78:69 | And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the ![]() |
78:70 | He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: |
78:71 | From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and ![]() |
78:72 | So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. |