1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. ERV — Psalm 78:1
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old: ERV — Psalm 78:2
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ERV — Psalm 78:3
4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done. ERV — Psalm 78:4
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: ERV — Psalm 78:5
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children: ERV — Psalm 78:6
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: ERV — Psalm 78:7
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. ERV — Psalm 78:8
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. ERV — Psalm 78:9
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; ERV — Psalm 78:10
11 And they forgat his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shewed them. ERV — Psalm 78:11
12 Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ERV — Psalm 78:12
13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. ERV — Psalm 78:13
14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. ERV — Psalm 78:14
15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. ERV — Psalm 78:15
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. ERV — Psalm 78:16
17 Yet went they on still to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. ERV — Psalm 78:17
18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. ERV — Psalm 78:18
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? ERV — Psalm 78:19
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can he give bread also? will he provide flesh for his people? ERV — Psalm 78:20
21 Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel; ERV — Psalm 78:21
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation. ERV — Psalm 78:22
23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven; ERV — Psalm 78:23
24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them of the corn of heaven. ERV — Psalm 78:24
25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty: he sent them meat to the full. ERV — Psalm 78:25
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he guided the south wind. ERV — Psalm 78:26
27 He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas: ERV — Psalm 78:27
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. ERV — Psalm 78:28
29 So they did eat, and were well filled; and he gave them that they lusted after. ERV — Psalm 78:29
30 They were not estranged from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths, ERV — Psalm 78:30
31 When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the fattest of them, and smote down the young men of Israel. ERV — Psalm 78:31
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not in his wondrous works. ERV — Psalm 78:32
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror. ERV — Psalm 78:33
34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him: and they returned and sought God early. ERV — Psalm 78:34
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer. ERV — Psalm 78:35
36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue. ERV — Psalm 78:36
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. ERV — Psalm 78:37
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. ERV — Psalm 78:38
39 And he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. ERV — Psalm 78:39
40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! ERV — Psalm 78:40
41 And they turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ERV — Psalm 78:41
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary. ERV — Psalm 78:42
43 How he set his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan; ERV — Psalm 78:43
44 And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink. ERV — Psalm 78:44
45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. ERV — Psalm 78:45
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust. ERV — Psalm 78:46
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. ERV — Psalm 78:47
48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. ERV — Psalm 78:48
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a band of angels of evil. ERV — Psalm 78:49
50 He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; ERV — Psalm 78:50
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham: ERV — Psalm 78:51
52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. ERV — Psalm 78:52
53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. ERV — Psalm 78:53
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. ERV — Psalm 78:54
55 He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. ERV — Psalm 78:55
56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and kept not his testimonies; ERV — Psalm 78:56
57 But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. ERV — Psalm 78:57
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. ERV — Psalm 78:58
59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: ERV — Psalm 78:59
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; ERV — Psalm 78:60
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the adversary's hand. ERV — Psalm 78:61
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. ERV — Psalm 78:62
63 Fire devoured their young men; and their maidens had no marriage-song. ERV — Psalm 78:63
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. ERV — Psalm 78:64
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. ERV — Psalm 78:65
66 And he smote his adversaries backward: he put them to a perpetual reproach. ERV — Psalm 78:66
67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim; ERV — Psalm 78:67
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. ERV — Psalm 78:68
69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath established for ever. ERV — Psalm 78:69
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: ERV — Psalm 78:70
71 From following the ewes that give suck he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. ERV — Psalm 78:71
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. ERV — Psalm 78:72