Psalms 78:1 WEB: 


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Psalms 78:1: 
&gt; Hear my law, my people. Turn 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, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, His strength, and his wondrous works that he has 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, even the children who should be born; Who should arise and tell 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 didn't make their hearts loyal, Whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Psalms 78:9: 
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

Psalms 78:10: 
They didn't keep God's covenant, And refused to walk in his law.

Psalms 78:11: 
They forgot his doings, His wondrous works that he had shown them.

Psalms 78:12: 
He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psalms 78:13: 
He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; He made the waters stand as a heap.

Psalms 78:14: 
In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, And all night with a light of fire.

Psalms 78:15: 
He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

Psalms 78:16: 
He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psalms 78:17: 
Yet they still went on to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psalms 78:18: 
They tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.

Psalms 78:19: 
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78:20: 
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, Streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

Psalms 78:21: 
Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, Anger also went up against Israel,

Psalms 78:22: 
Because they didn't believe in God, And didn't trust in his salvation.

Psalms 78:23: 
Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven.

Psalms 78:24: 
He rained down manna on them to eat, And gave them food from the sky.

Psalms 78:25: 
Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

Psalms 78:26: 
He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

Psalms 78:27: 
He rained also flesh on them as the dust; Winged birds as the sand of the seas.

Psalms 78:28: 
He let them fall in the midst of their camp, Around their habitations.

Psalms 78:29: 
So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

Psalms 78:30: 
They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Psalms 78:31: 
When the anger of God went up against them, Killed some of the fattest of them, And struck down the young men of Israel.

Psalms 78:32: 
For all this they still sinned, And didn't believe in his wondrous works.

Psalms 78:33: 
Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, And their years in terror.

Psalms 78:34: 
When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

Psalms 78:35: 
They remembered that God was their rock, The Most High God their redeemer.

Psalms 78:36: 
But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied to him with their tongue.

Psalms 78:37: 
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.

Psalms 78:38: 
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, And didn't stir up all his wrath.

Psalms 78:39: 
He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

Psalms 78:40: 
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!

Psalms 78:41: 
They turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 78:42: 
They didn't remember his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

Psalms 78:43: 
How he set his signs in Egypt, His wonders in the field of Zoan,

Psalms 78:44: 
Turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

Psalms 78:45: 
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.

Psalms 78:46: 
He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.

Psalms 78:47: 
He destroyed their vines with hail, Their sycamore-fig trees with frost.

Psalms 78:48: 
He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Psalms 78:49: 
He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, indignation, and trouble, And a band of angels of evil.

Psalms 78:50: 
He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

Psalms 78:51: 
And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

Psalms 78:52: 
But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Psalms 78:53: 
He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Psalms 78:54: 
He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

Psalms 78:55: 
He also drove out the nations before them, Allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Psalms 78:56: 
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And didn't keep his testimonies;

Psalms 78:57: 
But turned back, and dealt treacherously 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 engraved images.

Psalms 78:59: 
When God heard this, he was angry, And greatly abhorred Israel;

Psalms 78:60: 
So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;

Psalms 78:61: 
And delivered his strength into captivity, His glory into the adversary's hand.

Psalms 78:62: 
He also gave his people over to the sword, And was angry with his inheritance.

Psalms 78:63: 
Fire devoured their young men; Their virgins had no wedding song.

Psalms 78:64: 
Their priests fell by the sword, And their widows couldn't weep.

Psalms 78:65: 
Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

Psalms 78:66: 
He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Psalms 78:67: 
Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, And didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psalms 78:68: 
But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

Psalms 78:69: 
He built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he has established forever.

Psalms 78:70: 
He also chose David his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

Psalms 78:71: 
From following the ewes that have their young, He brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, And Israel, his inheritance.

Psalms 78:72: 
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.