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The Book of Psalms 78
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Psalms 78:1	{An instruction. Of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalms 78:2	I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,
Psalms 78:3	Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:
Psalms 78:4	We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.
Psalms 78:5	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;
Psalms 78:6	That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,
Psalms 78:7	And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of ùGod, but observe his commandments;
Psalms 78:8	And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with ùGod.
Psalms 78:9	The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
Psalms 78:10	They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psalms 78:11	And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
Psalms 78:12	In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
Psalms 78:13	He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;
Psalms 78:14	And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
Psalms 78:15	He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
Psalms 78:16	And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Psalms 78:17	Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
Psalms 78:18	And they tempted ùGod in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
Psalms 78:19	And they spoke against God: they said, Is ùGod able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psalms 78:20	Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
Psalms 78:21	Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
Psalms 78:22	Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
Psalms 78:23	Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
Psalms 78:24	And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
Psalms 78:25	Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
Psalms 78:26	He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
Psalms 78:27	And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
Psalms 78:28	And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:
Psalms 78:29	And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
Psalms 78:30	They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
Psalms 78:31	When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
Psalms 78:32	For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;
Psalms 78:33	And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Psalms 78:34	When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after ùGod;
Psalms 78:35	And they remembered that God was their rock, and ùGod, the Most High, their redeemer.
Psalms 78:36	But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;
Psalms 78:37	For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Psalms 78:38	But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
Psalms 78:39	And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
Psalms 78:40	How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
Psalms 78:41	And they turned again and tempted ùGod, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
Psalms 78:42	They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,
Psalms 78:43	How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;
Psalms 78:44	And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
Psalms 78:45	He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;
Psalms 78:46	And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;
Psalms 78:47	He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;
Psalms 78:48	And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
Psalms 78:49	He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, a mission of angels of woes.
Psalms 78:50	He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psalms 78:51	And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
Psalms 78:52	And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
Psalms 78:53	And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.
Psalms 78:54	And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;
Psalms 78:55	And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Psalms 78:56	But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
Psalms 78:57	And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
Psalms 78:58	And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psalms 78:59	God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psalms 78:60	And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,
Psalms 78:61	And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;
Psalms 78:62	And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:
Psalms 78:63	The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;
Psalms 78:64	Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalms 78:65	Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
Psalms 78:66	And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.
Psalms 78:67	And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalms 78:68	But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;
Psalms 78:69	And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
Psalms 78:70	And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psalms 78:71	From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Psalms 78:72	And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.