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Psalms 78

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Berean Standard Bible

78:1

Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

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78:2

I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;

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78:3

That which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us,

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78:4

We will not hide from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done. .

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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;

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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,

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78:7

That they might put their confidence in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep His commandments;

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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.

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78:9

The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, That turned back in the day of battle.

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78:10

They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in His law;

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78:11

And they forgot His doings, And His wondrous works that He had shown them.

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78:12

Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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78:13

He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; And He made the waters to stand as a heap.

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78:14

By day also He led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.

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78:15

He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.

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78:16

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

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78:17

Yet went they on still to sin against Him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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78:18

And they tried God in their heart By asking food for their craving.

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78:19

Yea, they spoke against God; They said 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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78:20

Behold, He smote the rock, that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can He give bread also? Or will He provide flesh for His people?'

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78:21

Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;

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78:22

Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in His salvation.

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78:23

And He commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;

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78:24

And He caused manna to rain upon them for food, And gave them of the corn of heaven.

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78:25

Man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to the full.

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78:26

He caused the east wind to set forth in heaven; And by His power He brought on the south wind.

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78:27

He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, And winged fowl as the sand of the seas;

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78:28

And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their dwellings.

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78:29

So they did eat, and were well filled; And He gave them that which they craved.

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78:30

They were not estranged from their craving, Their food was yet in their mouths,

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78:31

When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the lustieth among them, And smote down the young men of Israel.

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78:32

For all this they sinned still, And believed not in His wondrous works.

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78:33

Therefore He ended their days as a breath, And their years in terror.

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78:34

When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him, And turn back and seek God earnestly.

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78:35

And they remembered that God was their Rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

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78:36

But they beguiled Him with their mouth, And lied unto Him with their tongue.

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78:37

For their heart was not stedfast with Him, Neither were they faithful in His covenant.

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78:38

But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not; Yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away, And doth not stir up all His wrath.

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78:39

So He remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

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78:40

How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, And grieve Him in the desert!

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78:41

And still again they tried God, And set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.

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78:42

They remembered not His hand, Nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary.

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78:43

How He set His signs in Egypt, And His wonders in the field of Zoan; .

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78:44

And turned their rivers into blood, So that they could not drink their streams.

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78:45

He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.

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78:46

He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labour unto the locust.

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78:47

He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore-trees with frost.

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78:48

He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to fiery bolts.

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78:49

He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A sending of messengers of evil.

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78:50

He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence;

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78:51

And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;

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78:52

But He made His own people to go forth like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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78:53

And He led them safely, and they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

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78:54

And He brought them to His holy border, To the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.

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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.

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78:56

Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, And kept not His testimonies;

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78:57

But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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78:58

For they provoked Him with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.

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78:59

God heard, and was wroth, And He greatly abhorred Israel;

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78:60

And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which He had made to dwell among men;

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78:61

And delivered His strength into captivity, And His glory into the adversary's hand.

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78:62

He gave His people over also unto the sword; And was wroth with His inheritance.

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78:63

Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.

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78:64

Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation. .

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78:65

Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, Like a mighty man recovering from wine.

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78:66

And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.

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78:67

Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

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78:68

But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which He loved.

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78:69

And He built His sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which He hath founded for ever.

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78:70

He chose David also His servant, And took him from the sheepfolds;

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78:71

From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, To be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

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78:72

So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; And lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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