Psalms 78

Psa. 78:1	Give ear, O my people, to my instruction; / Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psa. 78:2	I will open my mouth in a parable; / I will utter riddles from of old,
Psa. 78:3	Which we have heard and known, / And our fathers have related to us.
Psa. 78:4	We will not hide [them] from their children, / [But] will relate to the generation to come / The praises of Jehovah and His strength / And His wondrous deeds that He has done.
Psa. 78:5	Indeed He has 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;
Psa. 78:6	That the generation to come, / The children to be born, may know [them,] / [Who] should arise and relate [them] to their children;
Psa. 78:7	That they might set their hope in God, / And not forget the deeds of God, / But observe His commandments;
Psa. 78:8	That they might not be like their fathers, / A stubborn and rebellious generation, / A generation that did not set their heart right, / And whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psa. 78:9	The children of Ephraim, armed archers with bows, / Turned back in the day of battle.
Psa. 78:10	They did not keep the covenant of God, / And they refused to walk in His law.
Psa. 78:11	And they forgot His doings / And His wondrous deeds that He had shown them.
Psa. 78:12	He did something wonderful in the sight of their fathers / In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psa. 78:13	He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, / And He made the water stand as a heap.
Psa. 78:14	And He led them with the cloud by day / And all the night with a light of fire.
Psa. 78:15	He split rocks in the wilderness / And gave [them] abundant drink, as from the depths.
Psa. 78:16	He also brought forth streams from the rock / And made water run down like rivers.
Psa. 78:17	Yet they still continued to sin against Him, / To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
Psa. 78:18	And they put God to the test in their heart, / By asking for food according to their desire.
Psa. 78:19	They also spoke against God; / They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psa. 78:20	Behold, He struck the rock, / And water gushed out, / And streams overflowed; / Can He also give [us] bread, / Or provide meat for His people?
Psa. 78:21	Therefore Jehovah heard and was angry. / And a fire was kindled against Jacob, / And also anger went up against Israel;
Psa. 78:22	Because they did not believe in God, / And they did not trust in His salvation.
Psa. 78:23	Yet He commanded the skies above / And opened the doors of heaven;
Psa. 78:24	And He rained down upon them manna to eat / And gave them the food of heaven.
Psa. 78:25	Man ate the bread of the mighty; / He sent them full provision.
Psa. 78:26	He made the east wind blow in the heavens / And guided the south wind by His strength.
Psa. 78:27	And He rained upon them meat like dust, / And winged birds like the sand of the seas.
Psa. 78:28	And He made [it] fall in the midst of their camp, / Around their habitations.
Psa. 78:29	So they ate and were well filled; / Indeed what they desired He brought to them.
Psa. 78:30	They were not estranged from what they desired; / Their food was still in their mouths
Psa. 78:31	When the anger of God went up against them / And slew [some] of their fattest ones / And struck down the choice men of Israel.
Psa. 78:32	In spite of all this they still sinned / And did not believe in His wondrous deeds.
Psa. 78:33	Therefore He consumed their days with vanity, / And their years with terror.
Psa. 78:34	When He slew them, they inquired after Him, / And they returned and diligently sought God.
Psa. 78:35	And they remembered that God was their rock, / And the Most High God, their Redeemer.
Psa. 78:36	But they flattered Him with their mouth / And lied to Him with their tongue.
Psa. 78:37	For their heart was not steadfast toward Him, / Nor were they faithful to His covenant.
Psa. 78:38	But He, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity / And did not destroy [them;] / Indeed He turned back His anger many times / And did not stir up all His wrath.
Psa. 78:39	And He remembered that they were flesh, / A wind that goes away and does not return.
Psa. 78:40	How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness / And grieved Him in the desert!
Psa. 78:41	And they repeatedly put God to the test / And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Psa. 78:42	They did not remember His hand, / The day when He ransomed them from the adversary;
Psa. 78:43	When He set His signs in Egypt / And His wonders in the field of Zoan;
Psa. 78:44	And He turned their rivers into blood, / As well as their streams, so that they could not drink.
Psa. 78:45	He sent among them a swarm [of] [flies,] which devoured them; / And frogs, which destroyed them.
Psa. 78:46	And He gave their increase to the consuming locust, / And their labor to the swarming locust.
Psa. 78:47	He killed their vines with hail, / And their sycamores with ice stones.
Psa. 78:48	He gave over their cattle also to the hail / And their herds to the lightning bolts.
Psa. 78:49	He sent among them the burning fierceness of His anger, / Overflowing wrath and indignation and trouble, / A mission of angels of evils.
Psa. 78:50	He leveled a path for His anger; / He did not spare their soul from death, / But gave their life over to the pestilence.
Psa. 78:51	And He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, / The firstfruits of their vigor in the tents of Ham.
Psa. 78:52	But He set forth His people like sheep / And led them like a flock in the wilderness.
Psa. 78:53	And He led them to safety, so that they did not fear; / But the sea covered their enemies.
Psa. 78:54	And He brought them forth to His holy border, / The mountain, which His right hand had acquired.
Psa. 78:55	And He drove out the nations before them / And allotted them as an inheritance by line, / And He made the tribes of Israel dwell [there] in their tents.
Psa. 78:56	Yet they put [Him] to the test and rebelled against God the Most High, / And did not keep His testimonies.
Psa. 78:57	And they turned back and dealt treacherously, as their fathers [had done;] / They turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psa. 78:58	Indeed they provoked Him to anger with their high places / And made Him jealous with their graven images.
Psa. 78:59	God heard, and He was angered; / And He greatly abhorred Israel.
Psa. 78:60	Thus He forsook the tabernacle in Shiloh, / The tent [in which] He dwelt among men;
Psa. 78:61	And He gave over His Ark into captivity, / And His glory into the hand of the adversary.
Psa. 78:62	He also delivered His people to the sword / And was angry with His inheritance.
Psa. 78:63	Fire devoured their young men, / And their virgins had no marriage song.
Psa. 78:64	Their priests fell by the sword, / And their widows did not lament.
Psa. 78:65	Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, / Like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
Psa. 78:66	And He struck His adversaries [and sent them] back; / He put an everlasting reproach upon them.
Psa. 78:67	And He rejected the tent of Joseph, / And the tribe of Ephraim He did not choose.
Psa. 78:68	Rather He chose the tribe of Judah, / Mount Zion, which He loved.
Psa. 78:69	And He built His sanctuary like the heights, / Like the earth that He has founded forever.
Psa. 78:70	Moreover He chose David His servant / And took him from the sheepfolds;
Psa. 78:71	From following after the ewes He brought him / To shepherd Jacob His people / And Israel His inheritance.
Psa. 78:72	And he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, / And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

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