Psalms 78
1Give 1 Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 1
2I 1 I will utter dark sayings of old, 1
3Which 1 And our fathers have told us. 1
4We 1 Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, 1 And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done. 1
5For 1 And appointed a law in Israel, 1 Which he commanded our fathers, 1 That they should make them known to their children; 1
6That 1 Who should arise and tell them to their children, 1
7That 1 And not forget the works of God, 1 But keep his commandments, 1
8And 1 A stubborn and rebellious generation, 1 A generation that set not their heart aright, 1 And whose spirit was not steadfast with God. 1
9The 1 Turned back in the day of battle. 1
10They 1 And refused to walk in his law; 1
11And 1 And his wondrous works that he had shown them. 1
12Marvelous things 1 In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 1
13He 1 And he made the waters to stand as a heap. 1
14In 1 And all the night with a light of fire. 1
15He 1 And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. 1
16He 1 And caused waters to run down like rivers. 1
17Yet 1 To rebel against the Most High in the desert. 1
18And 1 By asking food according to their desire. 1
19Yea, they 1 They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 1
20Behold 1 And streams overflowed; 1 Can he give bread also? 1 Will he provide flesh for his people? 1
21Therefore 1 And a fire was kindled against Jacob, 1 And anger also went up against Israel; 1
22Because 1 And trusted not in his salvation. 1
23Yet he 1 And opened the doors of heaven; 1
24And 1 And gave them food from heaven. 1
25Man did eat 1 He sent them food to the full. 1
26He 1 And by his power he guided the south wind. 1
27He 1 And winged birds as the sand of the seas: 1
28And 1 Round about their habitations. 1
29So 1 And he gave them their own desire. 1
30They 1 Their food was yet in their mouths, 1
31When 1 And slew of the fattest of them, 1 And smote down the young men of Israel. 1
32For 1 And believed not in his wondrous works. 1
33Therefore their 1 And their years in terror. 1
34When 1 And they returned and sought God earnestly. 1
35And 1 And the Most High God their redeemer. 1
36But they 1 And lied unto him with their tongue. 1
37For 1 Neither were they faithful in his covenant. 1
38But 1 Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, 1 And did not stir up all his wrath. 1
39And 1 A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 1
40How 1 And grieve him in the desert! 1
41And 1 And provoked the Holy One of Israel. 1
42They 1 Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; 1
43How he 1 And his wonders in the field of Zoan, 1
44And 1 And their streams, so that they could not drink. 1
45He 1 And frogs, which destroyed them. 1
46He 1 And their labor unto the locust. 1
47He destroyed 1 And their sycamore trees with frost. 1
48He gave 1 And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 1
49He 1 Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, 1 A band of angels of evil. 1
50He 1 He spared not their soul from death, 1 But gave their life over to the pestilence, 1
51And 1 The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. 1
52But 1 And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 1
53And 1 But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 1
54And 1 To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten. 1
55He 1 And allotted them for an inheritance by line, 1 And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 1
56Yet 1 And kept not his testimonies; 1
57But turned 1 They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 1
58For 1 And moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 1
59When 1 And greatly abhorred Israel; 1
60So that 1 The tent which he placed among men; 1
61And 1 And his glory into the adversary’s hand. 1
62He 1 And was wroth with his inheritance. 1
63Fire devoured their 1 And their virgins had no marriage song. 1
64Their 1 And their widows made no lamentation. 1
65Then the Lord awoke 1 Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 1
66And 1 He put them to a perpetual reproach. 1
67Moreover he 1 And chose not the tribe of Ephraim, 1
68But chose the 1 The mount Zion which he loved. 1
69And 1 Like the earth which he hath established forever. 1
70He 1 And took him from the sheepfolds: 1
71From 1 To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 1
72So he 1 And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.