Psalms - Chapter 78 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Give ear, O my people, {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I them, even} the children {cf15I which} should be born; {cf15I who} should arise and declare {cf15I 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 {cf15I that} set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
  • 9. The children of Ephraim, {cf15I being} armed, {cf15I 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, {cf15I 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 {cf15I them} drink as {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 angels' 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I was} yet in their mouths,
  • 31. The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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, {cf15I being} full of compassion, forgave {cf15I their} iniquity, and destroyed {cf15I 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 {cf15I were but} flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
  • 40. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, {cf15I 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, {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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, {cf15I even to} this mountain, {cf15I 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 {cf15I this}, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
  • 60. So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent {cf15I 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, {cf15I 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 {cf15I 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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