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, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful 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 which should be born; who should arise and declare 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 forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed 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 divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.


reference: Psalms 78:14

text: In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.


reference: Psalms 78:15

text: He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great 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: And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.


reference: Psalms 78:18

text: And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.


reference: Psalms 78:19

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


reference: Psalms 78:20

text: 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?


reference: Psalms 78:21

text: Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came 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: Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,


reference: Psalms 78:24

text: And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.


reference: Psalms 78:25

text: Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.


reference: Psalms 78:26

text: He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.


reference: Psalms 78:27

text: He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:


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: for he gave them their own desire;


reference: Psalms 78:30

text: They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,


reference: Psalms 78:31

text: The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.


reference: Psalms 78:32

text: For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.


reference: Psalms 78:33

text: Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.


reference: Psalms 78:34

text: When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.


reference: Psalms 78:35

text: And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.


reference: Psalms 78:36

text: Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.


reference: Psalms 78:37

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


reference: Psalms 78:38

text: 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.


reference: Psalms 78:39

text: For 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 provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!


reference: Psalms 78:41

text: Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.


reference: Psalms 78:42

text: They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.


reference: Psalms 78:43

text: How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:


reference: Psalms 78:44

text: And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.


reference: Psalms 78:45

text: He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.


reference: Psalms 78:46

text: He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour 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 up 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, by sending evil angels among them.


reference: Psalms 78:50

text: He made a way to 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 firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:


reference: Psalms 78:52

text: But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.


reference: Psalms 78:53

text: And he led them on 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, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.


reference: Psalms 78:55

text: 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.


reference: Psalms 78:56

text: Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:


reference: Psalms 78:57

text: But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully 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 enemy’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: The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.


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, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.


reference: Psalms 78:66

text: And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.


reference: Psalms 78:67

text: Moreover he refused the tabernacle 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 high palaces, 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 great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.


reference: Psalms 78:72

text: So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.