Psalm 78 (TRV)
From Textus Receptus
- 0 Maschil of Asaph.
- 1 Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
- 2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
- 3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
- 4 We shall not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done.
- 5 Because, 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;
- 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children who will be born, that they will arise and declare them to their children,
- 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;
- 8 and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart aright, and whose spirit was not loyal to God.
- 9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
- 10 They did not keep the covenant of God; they refused to walk in His law,
- 11 And forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them.
- 12 Marvelous things He did in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
- 13 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters stand up like a heap.
- 14 In the daytime also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
- 15 He split the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink like the great depths.
- 16 He also brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
- 17 But they sinned even more against Him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.
- 18 And they tested God in their heart by asking for the food of their delight.
- 19 Yes, they spoke against God: they said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
- 20 Behold, He struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He give bread also? Can He provide meat for His people?”
- 21 Therefore the LORD heard this and was furious; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,
- 22 Because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in His salvation.
- 23 Though He had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
- 24 and had rained down manna on them to eat, and had given them of the grain of heaven.
- 25 Men ate angels’ food; He sent them food to the full.
- 26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven; and by His power He brought in the south wind.
- 27 He also rained meat on them like the dust, and feathered fowl even like the sand of the sea;
- 28 And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, all around their habitations.
- 29 So they ate and were well filled, because He gave them their own desire.
- 30 They were not deprived of their appetite; but while their food was still in their mouths,
- 31 the wrath of God came upon them, and slew the most superior of them, and struck down the chosen men of Israel.
- 32 Despite all this they still sinned, and did not believe in His wondrous works.
- 33 Therefore their days He consumed in vanity, and their years in troubles.
- 34 When He slew them, then they sought Him; and they returned and sought earnestly for God.
- 35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the High God their Redeemer.
- 36 Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth, and they lied to Him with their tongues.
- 37 Because, their heart was not right with Him, nor were they loyal in His covenant.
- 38 But He, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy them. Yes, many a time He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.
- 39 Because, He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and does not come again.
- 40 How often did they provoke Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!
- 41 Yes, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
- 42 They did not remember His hand, nor the day when He redeemed them from the enemy,
- 43 when He had worked His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;
- 44 and had turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
- 45 He sent different kinds of flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
- 46 He also gave their crops to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
- 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.
- 48 He also gave up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to burning lightning.
- 49 He cast on them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
- 50 He made a way for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
- 51 And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.
- 52 But He made His own people go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
- 53 And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
- 54 And He brought them to border of His sanctuary, even to this mountain which His right hand had purchased.
- 55 He also drove out the heathen before them, divided them an inheritance by perimeters, and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
- 56 Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep His testimonies,
- 57 But turned back and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
- 58 Because, they provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
- 59 When God heard this, He was furious, and greatly abhorred Israel,
- 60 So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He placed among men,
- 61 And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy’s hand.
- 62 He also gave His people over to the sword, and was furious with His inheritance.
- 63 The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given in marriage.
- 64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
- 65 Then the LORD awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.
- 66 And He smote His enemies in the back parts; He put them to a perpetual reproach.
- 67 Moreover He rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
- 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loved.
- 69 And He built His sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which He has established forever.
- 70 He also chose David His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
- 71 From following the greatly pregnant ewes He brought him to feed Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.
- 72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.
