­PSA 78:1  Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of

 my mouth.

 

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

 

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

 

­PSA 78:4  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.

 

­PSA 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:

 

­PSA 78:6  That the generation to come might know them, even the children which

 should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

 

­PSA 78:7  That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of

 God, but keep his commandments:

 

­PSA 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.

 

­PSA 78:9  The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back

 in the day of battle.

 

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

 

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

 

­PSA 78:12  Marvellous things did he 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

 waters to stand as an heap.

 

­PSA 78:14  In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with

 a light of fire.

 

­PSA 78:15  He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out

 of the great depths.

 

­PSA 78:16  He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run

 down like rivers.

 

­PSA 78:17  And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High

 in the wilderness.

 

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

 

­PSA 78:19  Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table

 in the wilderness?

 

­PSA 78:20  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?

 

­PSA 78:21  Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled

 against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

 

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

 

­PSA 78:23  Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors

 of heaven,

 

­PSA 78:24  And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them

 of the corn of heaven.

 

­PSA 78:25  Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

 

­PSA 78:26  He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he

 brought in the south wind.

 

­PSA 78:27  He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as

 the sand of the sea:

 

­PSA 78:28  And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their

 habitations.

 

­PSA 78:29  So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own

 desire;

 

­PSA 78:30  They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was

 yet in their mouths,

 

­PSA 78:31  The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and

 smote down the chosen men of Israel.

 

­PSA 78:32  For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous

 works.

 

­PSA 78:33  Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in

 trouble.

 

­PSA 78:34  When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and

 enquired early after God.

 

­PSA 78:35  And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their

 redeemer.

 

­PSA 78:36  Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied

 unto him with their tongues.

 

­PSA 78:37  For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast

 in his covenant.

 

­PSA 78:38  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.

 

­PSA 78:39  For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth

 away, and cometh not again.

 

­PSA 78:40  How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him

 in the desert!

 

­PSA 78:41  Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of

 Israel.

 

­PSA 78:42  They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them

 from the enemy.

 

­PSA 78:43  How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field

 of Zoan.

 

­PSA 78:44  And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they

 could not drink.

 

­PSA 78:45  He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and

 frogs, which destroyed them.

 

­PSA 78:46  He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour

 unto the locust.

 

­PSA 78:47  He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with

 frost.

 

­PSA 78:48  He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot

 thunderbolts.

 

­PSA 78:49  He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and

 indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

 

­PSA 78:50  He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but

 gave their life over to the pestilence;

 

­PSA 78:51  And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength

 in the tabernacles of Ham:

 

­PSA 78:52  But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them

 in the wilderness like a flock.

 

­PSA 78:53  And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea

 overwhelmed their enemies.

 

­PSA 78:54  And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this

 mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

 

­PSA 78:55  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.

 

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

 testimonies:

 

­PSA 78:57  But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they

 were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

 

­PSA 78:58  For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him

 to jealousy with their graven images.

 

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

 

­PSA 78:60  So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he

 placed among men;

 

­PSA 78:61  And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the

 enemy's hand.

 

­PSA 78:62  He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his

 inheritance.

 

­PSA 78:63  The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given

 to marriage.

 

­PSA 78:64  Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no

 lamentation.

 

­PSA 78:65  Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that

 shouteth by reason of wine.

 

­PSA 78:66  And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a

 perpetual reproach.

 

­PSA 78:67  Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the

 tribe of Ephraim:

 

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

 

­PSA 78:69  And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which

 he hath established for ever.

 

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

 

­PSA 78:71  From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed

 Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

 

­PSA 78:72  So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided

 them by the skilfulness of his hands.