1 {An instruction. Of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. DBY — Psalm 78:1
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old, DBY — Psalm 78:2
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us: DBY — Psalm 78:3
4 We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done. DBY — Psalm 78:4
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; DBY — Psalm 78:5
6 That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children, DBY — Psalm 78:6
7 And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but observe his commandments; DBY — Psalm 78:7
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. DBY — Psalm 78:8
9 The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle. DBY — Psalm 78:9
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; DBY — Psalm 78:10
11 And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them. DBY — Psalm 78:11
12 In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan. DBY — Psalm 78:12
13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap; DBY — Psalm 78:13
14 And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire. DBY — Psalm 78:14
15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly; DBY — Psalm 78:15
16 And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. DBY — Psalm 78:16
17 Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert; DBY — Psalm 78:17
18 And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust; DBY — Psalm 78:18
19 And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness? DBY — Psalm 78:19
20 Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people? DBY — Psalm 78:20
21 Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel: DBY — Psalm 78:21
22 Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation; DBY — Psalm 78:22
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens, DBY — Psalm 78:23
24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens. DBY — Psalm 78:24
25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full. DBY — Psalm 78:25
26 He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind; DBY — Psalm 78:26
27 And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas, DBY — Psalm 78:27
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations: DBY — Psalm 78:28
29 And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them. DBY — Psalm 78:29
30 They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths, DBY — Psalm 78:30
31 When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. DBY — Psalm 78:31
32 For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works; DBY — Psalm 78:32
33 And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. DBY — Psalm 78:33
34 When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God; DBY — Psalm 78:34
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, their redeemer. DBY — Psalm 78:35
36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue; DBY — Psalm 78:36
37 For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. DBY — Psalm 78:37
38 But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury: DBY — Psalm 78:38
39 And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again. DBY — Psalm 78:39
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! DBY — Psalm 78:40
41 And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel. DBY — Psalm 78:41
42 They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor, DBY — Psalm 78:42
43 How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan; DBY — Psalm 78:43
44 And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink; DBY — Psalm 78:44
45 He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them; DBY — Psalm 78:45
46 And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust; DBY — Psalm 78:46
47 He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones; DBY — Psalm 78:47
48 And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts. DBY — Psalm 78:48
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, a mission of angels of woes. DBY — Psalm 78:49
50 He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; DBY — Psalm 78:50
51 And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham. DBY — Psalm 78:51
52 And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock; DBY — Psalm 78:52
53 And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies. DBY — Psalm 78:53
54 And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased; DBY — Psalm 78:54
55 And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. DBY — Psalm 78:55
56 But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies, DBY — Psalm 78:56
57 And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow. DBY — Psalm 78:57
58 And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. DBY — Psalm 78:58
59 God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: DBY — Psalm 78:59
60 And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men, DBY — Psalm 78:60
61 And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor; DBY — Psalm 78:61
62 And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance: DBY — Psalm 78:62
63 The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song; DBY — Psalm 78:63
64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation. DBY — Psalm 78:64
65 Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine; DBY — Psalm 78:65
66 And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach. DBY — Psalm 78:66
67 And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim, DBY — Psalm 78:67
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved; DBY — Psalm 78:68
69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever. DBY — Psalm 78:69
70 And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: DBY — Psalm 78:70
71 From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. DBY — Psalm 78:71
72 And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands. DBY — Psalm 78:72