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Psalms 78

About Psalms Psalms is Israel's book of prayers and songs: praise, lament, thanks and trust, for every season of life.

Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.SelectedPsalms 78:1Ask

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:SelectedPsalms 78:2Ask

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.SelectedPsalms 78:3Ask

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.SelectedPsalms 78:4Ask

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:SelectedPsalms 78:5Ask

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:SelectedPsalms 78:6Ask

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:SelectedPsalms 78:7Ask

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.SelectedPsalms 78:8Ask

The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.SelectedPsalms 78:9Ask

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;SelectedPsalms 78:10Ask

And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.SelectedPsalms 78:11Ask

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.SelectedPsalms 78:12Ask

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.SelectedPsalms 78:13Ask

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.SelectedPsalms 78:14Ask

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.SelectedPsalms 78:15Ask

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.SelectedPsalms 78:16Ask

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.SelectedPsalms 78:17Ask

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.SelectedPsalms 78:18Ask

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?SelectedPsalms 78:19Ask

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?SelectedPsalms 78:20Ask

Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;SelectedPsalms 78:21Ask

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:SelectedPsalms 78:22Ask

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,SelectedPsalms 78:23Ask

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.SelectedPsalms 78:24Ask

Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.SelectedPsalms 78:25Ask

He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.SelectedPsalms 78:26Ask

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:SelectedPsalms 78:27Ask

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.SelectedPsalms 78:28Ask

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;SelectedPsalms 78:29Ask

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,SelectedPsalms 78:30Ask

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.SelectedPsalms 78:31Ask

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.SelectedPsalms 78:32Ask

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.SelectedPsalms 78:33Ask

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.SelectedPsalms 78:34Ask

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.SelectedPsalms 78:35Ask

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.SelectedPsalms 78:36Ask

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.SelectedPsalms 78:37Ask

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.SelectedPsalms 78:38Ask

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.SelectedPsalms 78:39Ask

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!SelectedPsalms 78:40Ask

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.SelectedPsalms 78:41Ask

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.SelectedPsalms 78:42Ask

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:SelectedPsalms 78:43Ask

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.SelectedPsalms 78:44Ask

He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.SelectedPsalms 78:45Ask

He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.SelectedPsalms 78:46Ask

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.SelectedPsalms 78:47Ask

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.SelectedPsalms 78:48Ask

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.SelectedPsalms 78:49Ask

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;SelectedPsalms 78:50Ask

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:SelectedPsalms 78:51Ask

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.SelectedPsalms 78:52Ask

And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.SelectedPsalms 78:53Ask

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.SelectedPsalms 78:54Ask

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.SelectedPsalms 78:55Ask

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:SelectedPsalms 78:56Ask

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.SelectedPsalms 78:57Ask

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.SelectedPsalms 78:58Ask

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:SelectedPsalms 78:59Ask

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;SelectedPsalms 78:60Ask

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.SelectedPsalms 78:61Ask

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.SelectedPsalms 78:62Ask

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.SelectedPsalms 78:63Ask

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.SelectedPsalms 78:64Ask

Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.SelectedPsalms 78:65Ask

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.SelectedPsalms 78:66Ask

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:SelectedPsalms 78:67Ask

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.SelectedPsalms 78:68Ask

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.SelectedPsalms 78:69Ask

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:SelectedPsalms 78:70Ask

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.SelectedPsalms 78:71Ask

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.SelectedPsalms 78:72Ask

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