#### Psalms 78

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30} {31} {32} {33} {34} {35} {36} {37} {38} {39} {40} {41} {42} {43} {44} {45} {46} {47} {48} {49} {50} {51} {52} {53} {54} {55} {56} {57} {58} {59} {60} {61} {62} {63} {64} {65} {66} {67} {68} {69} {70} {71} {72}

^ Ps 78.1: {Maschil of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
^ Ps 78.2: I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
^ Ps 78.3: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
^ Ps 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.
^ Ps 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:
^ Ps 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:
^ Ps 78.7: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
^ Ps 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.
^ Ps 78.9: The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
^ Ps 78.10: They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
^ Ps 78.11: And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
^ Ps 78.12: Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.
^ Ps 78.13: He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
^ Ps 78.14: In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
^ Ps 78.15: He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.
^ Ps 78.16: He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
^ Ps 78.17: And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
^ Ps 78.18: And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
^ Ps 78.19: Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
^ Ps 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?
^ Ps 78.21: Therefore the LORD heard [this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
^ Ps 78.22: Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
^ Ps 78.23: Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
^ Ps 78.24: And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
^ Ps 78.25: Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
^ Ps 78.26: He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
^ Ps 78.27: He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
^ Ps 78.28: And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
^ Ps 78.29: So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
^ Ps 78.30: They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,
^ Ps 78.31: The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.
^ Ps 78.32: For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
^ Ps 78.33: Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
^ Ps 78.34: When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
^ Ps 78.35: And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
^ Ps 78.36: Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
^ Ps 78.37: For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
^ Ps 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.
^ Ps 78.39: For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
^ Ps 78.40: How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!
^ Ps 78.41: Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
^ Ps 78.42: They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
^ Ps 78.43: How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
^ Ps 78.44: And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
^ Ps 78.45: He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
^ Ps 78.46: He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
^ Ps 78.47: He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
^ Ps 78.48: He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
^ Ps 78.49: He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].
^ Ps 78.50: He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
^ Ps 78.51: And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
^ Ps 78.52: But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^ Ps 78.53: And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
^ Ps 78.54: And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
^ Ps 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.
^ Ps 78.56: Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
^ Ps 78.57: But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
^ Ps 78.58: For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
^ Ps 78.59: When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
^ Ps 78.60: So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;
^ Ps 78.61: And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
^ Ps 78.62: He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
^ Ps 78.63: The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
^ Ps 78.64: Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
^ Ps 78.65: Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
^ Ps 78.66: And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
^ Ps 78.67: Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
^ Ps 78.68: But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
^ Ps 78.69: And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.
^ Ps 78.70: He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
^ Ps 78.71: From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
^ Ps 78.72: So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.