Psalms 78:1 ASV: 


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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, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous 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 that should be born; Who should arise and tell `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 carrying 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 they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed 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 clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.

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

Psalms 78:15: 
He clave 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 went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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

Psalms 78:19: 
Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psalms 78:20: 
Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?

Psalms 78:21: 
Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;

Psalms 78:22: 
Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.

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

Psalms 78:24: 
And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.

Psalms 78:25: 
Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.

Psalms 78:26: 
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.

Psalms 78:27: 
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:

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; And he gave them their own desire.

Psalms 78:30: 
They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,

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

Psalms 78:32: 
For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.

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

Psalms 78:34: 
When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.

Psalms 78:35: 
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

Psalms 78:36: 
But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto 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 `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: 
And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

Psalms 78:40: 
How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!

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

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

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

Psalms 78:44: 
And 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 unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.

Psalms 78:47: 
He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-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 cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.

Psalms 78:50: 
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

Psalms 78:51: 
And smote all the first-born 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: 
And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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

Psalms 78:55: 
He drove out the nations also before them, And 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 kept not 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 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 adversary's hand.

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

Psalms 78:63: 
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

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, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

Psalms 78:66: 
And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.

Psalms 78:67: 
Moreover he refused the tent 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 the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.

Psalms 78:70: 
He chose David also 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 skilfulness of his hands. Psalm 79 A Psalm of Asaph.