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Psalms 78

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1 (77-1) <Understanding for Asaph.> Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

2 (77-2) I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

3 (77-3) How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

4 (77-4) They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done.

5 (77-5) And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children:

6 (77-6) That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.

7 (77-7) That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

8 (77-8) That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God.

9 (77-9) The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

10 (77-10) They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

11 (77-11) And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.

12 (77-12) Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.

13 (77-13) He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

14 (77-14) And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.

15 (77-15) He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

16 (77-16) He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

17 (77-17) And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

18 (77-18) And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

19 (77-19) And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

20 (77-20) Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people?

21 (77-21) Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.

22 (77-22) Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.

23 (77-23) And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.

24 (77-24) And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.

25 (77-25) Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.

26 (77-26) He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

27 (77-27) And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

28 (77-28) And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.

29 (77-29) So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:

30 (77-30) they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

31 (77-31) And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.

32 (77-32) In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for his wondrous works.

33 (77-33) And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

34 (77-34) When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

35 (77-35) And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

36 (77-36) And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:

37 (77-37) But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

38 (77-38) But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath.

39 (77-39) And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

40 (77-40) How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

41 (77-41) And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

42 (77-42) They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:

43 (77-43) How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

44 (77-44) And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink.

45 (77-45) He sent amongst them divers sorts of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.

46 (77-46) And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

47 (77-47) And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.

48 (77-48) And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.

49 (77-49) And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.

50 (77-50) He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.

51 (77-51) And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

52 (77-52) And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

53 (77-53) And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

54 (77-54) And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution.

55 (77-55) And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

56 (77-56) Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

57 (77-57) And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

58 (77-58) They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

59 (77-59) God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

60 (77-60) And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

61 (77-61) And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

62 (77-62) And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

63 (77-63) Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.

64 (77-64) Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.

65 (77-65) And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

66 (77-66) And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.

67 (77-67) And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

68 (77-68) But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

69 (77-69) And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.

70 (77-70) And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,

71 (77-71) To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.

72 (77-72) And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.

New International Version NIV

1 My people, hear my teaching; listen to the words of my mouth.

2 I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter hidden things, things from of old—

3 things we have heard and known, things our ancestors have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their descendants; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.

5 He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children,

6 so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children.

7 Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.

8 They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

9 The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;

10 they did not keep God’s covenant and refused to live by his law.

11 They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them.

12 He did miracles in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.

13 He divided the sea and led them through; he made the water stand up like a wall.

14 He guided them with the cloud by day and with light from the fire all night.

15 He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them water as abundant as the seas;

16 he brought streams out of a rocky crag and made water flow down like rivers.

17 But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the wilderness against the Most High.

18 They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.

19 They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?

20 True, he struck the rock, and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly, but can he also give us bread? Can he supply meat for his people?”

21 When the LORD heard them, he was furious; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against Israel,

22 for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.

23 Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;

24 he rained down manna for the people to eat, he gave them the grain of heaven.

25 Human beings ate the bread of angels; he sent them all the food they could eat.

26 He let loose the east wind from the heavens and by his power made the south wind blow.

27 He rained meat down on them like dust, birds like sand on the seashore.

28 He made them come down inside their camp, all around their tents.

29 They ate till they were gorged— he had given them what they craved.

30 But before they turned from what they craved, even while the food was still in their mouths,

31 God’s anger rose against them; he put to death the sturdiest among them, cutting down the young men of Israel.

32 In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; in spite of his wonders, they did not believe.

33 So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

34 Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.

35 They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

36 But then they would flatter him with their mouths, lying to him with their tongues;

37 their hearts were not loyal to him, they were not faithful to his covenant.

38 Yet he was merciful; he forgave their iniquities and did not destroy them. Time after time he restrained his anger and did not stir up his full wrath.

39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a passing breeze that does not return.

40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the wasteland!

41 Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.

42 They did not remember his power— the day he redeemed them from the oppressor,

43 the day he displayed his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.

44 He turned their river into blood; they could not drink from their streams.

45 He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.

46 He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust.

47 He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.

48 He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.

49 He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.

50 He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

51 He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

52 But he brought his people out like a flock; he led them like sheep through the wilderness.

53 He guided them safely, so they were unafraid; but the sea engulfed their enemies.

54 And so he brought them to the border of his holy land, to the hill country his right hand had taken.

55 He drove out nations before them and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance; he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.

56 But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.

57 Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.

58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

59 When God heard them, he was furious; he rejected Israel completely.

60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among humans.

61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity, his splendor into the hands of the enemy.

62 He gave his people over to the sword; he was furious with his inheritance.

63 Fire consumed their young men, and their young women had no wedding songs;

64 their priests were put to the sword, and their widows could not weep.

65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.

66 He beat back his enemies; he put them to everlasting shame.

67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph, he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;

68 but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved.

69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever.

70 He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens;

71 from tending the sheep he brought him to be the shepherd of his people Jacob, of Israel his inheritance.

72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.