The Book of Psalms 78

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¹ Give ear O my people to my law incline your ears to the words of my mouth ⚑

² I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old ⚑

³ Which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us ⚑

⁴ We will not hide them from their children shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done ⚑

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 ⚑

⁶ That the generation to come might know them even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children ⚑

⁷ That they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments ⚑

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 ⚑

⁹ The children of Ephraim being armed and carrying bows turned back in the day of battle ⚑

¹⁰ They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law ⚑

¹¹ And forgat his works and his wonders that he had shewed them ⚑

¹² Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt in the field of Zoan ⚑

¹³ He divided the sea and caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand as an heap ⚑

¹⁴ In the daytime also he led them with a cloud and all the night with a light of fire ⚑

¹⁵ He clave the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths ⚑

¹⁶ He brought streams also out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers ⚑

¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness ⚑

¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust ⚑

¹⁹ Yea they spake against God they said Can God furnish a table in the wilderness ⚑

²⁰ Behold he smote the rock that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed can he give bread also can he provide flesh for his people ⚑

²¹ Therefore the LORD heard this and was wroth so a fire was kindled against Jacob and anger also came up against Israel ⚑

²² Because they believed not in God and trusted not in his salvation ⚑

²³ Though he had commanded the clouds from above and opened the doors of heaven ⚑

²⁴ And had rained down manna upon them to eat and had given them of the corn of heaven ⚑

²⁵ Man did eat ngels’ food he sent them meat to the full ⚑

²⁶ He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven and by his power he brought in the south wind ⚑

²⁷ He rained flesh also upon them as dust and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea ⚑

²⁸ And he let it fall in the midst of their camp round about their habitations ⚑

²⁹ So they did eat and were well filled for he gave them their own desire ⚑

³⁰ They were not estranged from their lust But while their meat was yet in their mouths ⚑

³¹ The wrath of God came upon them and slew the fattest of them and smote down the chosen men of Israel ⚑

³² For all this they sinned still and believed not for his wondrous works ⚑

³³ Therefore their days did he consume in vanity and their years in trouble ⚑

³⁴ When he slew them then they sought him and they returned and enquired early after God ⚑

³⁵ And they remembered that God was their rock and the high God their redeemer ⚑

³⁶ Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth and they lied unto him with their tongues ⚑

³⁷ For their heart was not right with him neither were they stedfast in his covenant ⚑

³⁸ But he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath ⚑

³⁹ For he remembered that they were but flesh a wind that passeth away and cometh not again ⚑

⁴⁰ How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert ⚑

⁴¹ Yea they turned back and tempted God and limited the Holy One of Israel ⚑

⁴² They remembered not his hand nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy ⚑

⁴³ How he had wrought his signs in Egypt and his wonders in the field of Zoan ⚑

⁴⁴ And had turned their rivers into blood and their floods that they could not drink ⚑

⁴⁵ He sent divers sorts of flies among them which devoured them and frogs which destroyed them ⚑

⁴⁶ He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller and their labour unto the locust ⚑

⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycomore trees with frost ⚑

⁴⁸ He gave up their cattle also to the hail and their flocks to hot thunderbolts ⚑

⁴⁹ He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger wrath and indignation and trouble by sending evil angels among them ⚑

⁵⁰ He made a way to his anger he spared not their soul from death but gave their life over to the pestilence ⚑

⁵¹ And smote all the firstborn in Egypt the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham ⚑

⁵² But made his own people to go forth like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock ⚑

⁵³ And he led them on safely so that they feared not but the sea overwhelmed their enemies ⚑

⁵⁴ And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary even to this mountain which his right hand had purchased ⚑

⁵⁵ He cast out the heathen also before them and divided them an inheritance by line and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents ⚑

⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God and kept not his testimonies ⚑

⁵⁷ But turned back and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers they were turned aside like a deceitful bow ⚑

⁵⁸ For they provoked him to anger with their high places and moved him to jealousy with their graven images ⚑

⁵⁹ When God heard this he was wroth and greatly abhorred Israel ⚑

⁶⁰ So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh the tent which he placed among men ⚑

⁶¹ And delivered his strength into captivity and his glory into the enemy’s hand ⚑

⁶² He gave his people over also unto the sword and was wroth with his inheritance ⚑

⁶³ The fire consumed their young men and their maidens were not given to marriage ⚑

⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword and their widows made no lamentation ⚑

⁶⁵ Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine ⚑

⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts he put them to a perpetual reproach ⚑

⁶⁷ Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph and chose not the tribe of Ephraim ⚑

⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah the mount Zion which he loved ⚑

⁶⁹ And he built his sanctuary like high palaces like the earth which he hath established for ever ⚑

⁷⁰ He chose David also his servant and took him from the sheepfolds ⚑

⁷¹ From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance ⚑

⁷² So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands ⚑

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King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain