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Psalm 78

Psa 78:1	¶	[[Maschil of Asaph.]] Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psa 78:2		I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Psa 78:3		Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Psa 78:4		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.
Psa 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:
Psa 78:6		That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:
Psa 78:7		That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:
Psa 78:8		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.
Psa 78:9		The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
Psa 78:10		They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
Psa 78:11		And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
Psa 78:12		Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.
Psa 78:13		He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.
Psa 78:14		In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
Psa 78:15		He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths.
Psa 78:16		He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Psa 78:17		And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Psa 78:18		And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.
Psa 78:19		Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Psa 78:20		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?
Psa 78:21		Therefore the LORD heard [this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;
Psa 78:22		Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Psa 78:23		Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
Psa 78:24		And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Psa 78:25		Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.
Psa 78:26		He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.
Psa 78:27		He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
Psa 78:28		And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
Psa 78:29		So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
Psa 78:30		They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths,
Psa 78:31		The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel.
Psa 78:32		For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Psa 78:33		Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Psa 78:34		When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
Psa 78:35		And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Psa 78:36		Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
Psa 78:37		For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Psa 78:38		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.
Psa 78:39		For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Psa 78:40		How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert!
Psa 78:41		Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Psa 78:42		They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.
Psa 78:43		How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
Psa 78:44		And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
Psa 78:45		He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psa 78:46		He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
Psa 78:47		He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
Psa 78:48		He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Psa 78:49		He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels [among them].
Psa 78:50		He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Psa 78:51		And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:
Psa 78:52		But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psa 78:53		And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psa 78:54		And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased.
Psa 78:55		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.
Psa 78:56		Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
Psa 78:57		But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
Psa 78:58		For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Psa 78:59		When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Psa 78:60		So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;
Psa 78:61		And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
Psa 78:62		He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
Psa 78:63		The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
Psa 78:64		Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Psa 78:65		Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
Psa 78:66		And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
Psa 78:67		Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
Psa 78:68		But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
Psa 78:69		And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Psa 78:70		He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
Psa 78:71		From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
Psa 78:72		So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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