Book of Psalms, No. 78

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Psalms 78 KJV - King James Version

No. 78 of the Psalms—King James Version (KJV)

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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.
9. ¶ The children of Ephraim, being armed, 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, 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 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 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 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.
40. ¶ How oft did they provoke 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 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 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 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, 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 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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