Psalms78
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(Psa 78:1) Give ear, O my people, {to} my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
(Psa 78:2) I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
(Psa 78:3) Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
(Psa 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.
(Psa 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:
(Psa 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:
(Psa 78:7) That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
(Psa 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.
(Psa 78:9) The children of Ephraim, {being} armed, {and} carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
(Psa 78:10) They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
(Psa 78:11) And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
(Psa 78:12) Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, {in} the field of Zoan.
(Psa 78:13) He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
(Psa 78:14) In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
(Psa 78:15) He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave {them} drink as {out of} the great depths.
(Psa 78:16) He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
(Psa 78:17) And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
(Psa 78:18) And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
(Psa 78:19) Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
(Psa 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?
(Psa 78:21) Therefore the Lord heard {this}, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
(Psa 78:22) Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
(Psa 78:23) Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
(Psa 78:24) And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
(Psa 78:25) Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
(Psa 78:26) He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
(Psa 78:27) He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
(Psa 78:28) And he let {it} fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
(Psa 78:29) So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
(Psa 78:30) They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat {was} yet in their mouths,
(Psa 78:31) The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen {men} of Israel.
(Psa 78:32) For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
(Psa 78:33) Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
(Psa 78:34) When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.
(Psa 78:35) And they remembered that God {was} their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
(Psa 78:36) Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
(Psa 78:37) For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
(Psa 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.
(Psa 78:39) For he remembered that they {were but} flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
(Psa 78:40) How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, {and} grieve him in the desert!
(Psa 78:41) Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
(Psa 78:42) They remembered not his hand, {nor} the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
(Psa 78:43) How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan.
(Psa 78:44) And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
(Psa 78:45) He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
(Psa 78:46) He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
(Psa 78:47) He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
(Psa 78:48) He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
(Psa 78:49) He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels {among them}.
(Psa 78:50) He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
(Psa 78:51) And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of {their} strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
(Psa 78:52) But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
(Psa 78:53) And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
(Psa 78:54) And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, {even to} this mountain, {which} his right hand had purchased.
(Psa 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.
(Psa 78:56) Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
(Psa 78:57) But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
(Psa 78:58) For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
(Psa 78:59) When God heard {this}, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
(Psa 78:60) So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent {which} he placed among men;
(Psa 78:61) And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
(Psa 78:62) He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
(Psa 78:63) The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
(Psa 78:64) Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
(Psa 78:65) Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, {and} like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
(Psa 78:66) And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
(Psa 78:67) Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
(Psa 78:68) But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
(Psa 78:69) And he built his sanctuary like high {palaces}, like the earth which he hath established for ever.
(Psa 78:70) He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
(Psa 78:71) From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
(Psa 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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