translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: PSA

book: Psalms

reference: Psalms 78:1

text: Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.


reference: Psalms 78:2

text: I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,


reference: Psalms 78:3

text: Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.


reference: Psalms 78:4

text: We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.


reference: Psalms 78:5

text: 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;


reference: Psalms 78:6

text: That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,


reference: Psalms 78:7

text: That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,


reference: Psalms 78:8

text: 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.


reference: Psalms 78:9

text: The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.


reference: Psalms 78:10

text: They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;


reference: Psalms 78:11

text: And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.


reference: Psalms 78:12

text: Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.


reference: Psalms 78:13

text: He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.


reference: Psalms 78:14

text: In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.


reference: Psalms 78:15

text: He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.


reference: Psalms 78:16

text: He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.


reference: Psalms 78:17

text: Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.


reference: Psalms 78:18

text: And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.


reference: Psalms 78:19

text: Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?


reference: Psalms 78:20

text: Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?


reference: Psalms 78:21

text: Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;


reference: Psalms 78:22

text: Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.


reference: Psalms 78:23

text: Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;


reference: Psalms 78:24

text: And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.


reference: Psalms 78:25

text: Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.


reference: Psalms 78:26

text: He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.


reference: Psalms 78:27

text: He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:


reference: Psalms 78:28

text: And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.


reference: Psalms 78:29

text: So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.


reference: Psalms 78:30

text: They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,


reference: Psalms 78:31

text: When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.


reference: Psalms 78:32

text: For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.


reference: Psalms 78:33

text: Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.


reference: Psalms 78:34

text: When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.


reference: Psalms 78:35

text: And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.


reference: Psalms 78:36

text: But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.


reference: Psalms 78:37

text: For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.


reference: Psalms 78:38

text: But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.


reference: Psalms 78:39

text: And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.


reference: Psalms 78:40

text: How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!


reference: Psalms 78:41

text: And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.


reference: Psalms 78:42

text: They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;


reference: Psalms 78:43

text: How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,


reference: Psalms 78:44

text: And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.


reference: Psalms 78:45

text: He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.


reference: Psalms 78:46

text: He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.


reference: Psalms 78:47

text: He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.


reference: Psalms 78:48

text: He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.


reference: Psalms 78:49

text: He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.


reference: Psalms 78:50

text: He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,


reference: Psalms 78:51

text: And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.


reference: Psalms 78:52

text: But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.


reference: Psalms 78:53

text: And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.


reference: Psalms 78:54

text: And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.


reference: Psalms 78:55

text: 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.


reference: Psalms 78:56

text: Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;


reference: Psalms 78:57

text: But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.


reference: Psalms 78:58

text: For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.


reference: Psalms 78:59

text: When God heard this, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;


reference: Psalms 78:60

text: So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;


reference: Psalms 78:61

text: And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand.


reference: Psalms 78:62

text: He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.


reference: Psalms 78:63

text: Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.


reference: Psalms 78:64

text: Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.


reference: Psalms 78:65

text: Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.


reference: Psalms 78:66

text: And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.


reference: Psalms 78:67

text: Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,


reference: Psalms 78:68

text: But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.


reference: Psalms 78:69

text: And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.


reference: Psalms 78:70

text: He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:


reference: Psalms 78:71

text: From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.


reference: Psalms 78:72

text: So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.