PSALM 78
Maschil of Asaph.
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.
9The
children of Ephraim, being armed, and carryinga
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 furnishb
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 Manc
did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full. 26 He caused
an east wind to blowd in the heaven: and by his power he
brought in the south wind. 27 He rained flesh also upon them as
dust, and featherede 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.
40How oft
did they provokef 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
wroughtg
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 destroyedh 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 madei 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 overwhelmedj
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 establishedk for ever. 70 He chose
David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: 71 From
followingl 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.
The Holy Bible
King James Version
The Holy Bible : King James Version. 1995. Oak
Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
a carrying:
Heb. throwing forth
b furnish:
Heb. order
c Man...:
or, Every one did eat the bread of the mighty
d to
blow: Heb. to go
e feathered...:
Heb. fowl of wing
f provoke:
or, rebel against
g wrought:
Heb. set
h destroyed:
Heb. killed
i He
made...: Heb. He weighed a path
j overwhelmed:
Heb. covered
k established:
Heb. founded
l following: Heb. after
