<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1014437">Psalms</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1015689">Psalm 78</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1015668">&laquo; Previous Psalm</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1015762">Next Psalm &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Book Three</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015690">1</a>. GIVE ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015691">2</a>. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015692">3</a>. Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015693">4</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015694">5</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015695">6</a>. That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015696">7</a>. That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015697">8</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015698">9</a>. The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015699">10</a>. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015700">11</a>. And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015701">12</a>. Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015702">13</a>. He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015703">14</a>. In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015704">15</a>. He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015705">16</a>. He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015706">17</a>. And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015707">18</a>. And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015708">19</a>. Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015709">20</a>. 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?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015710">21</a>. Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015711">22</a>. Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015712">23</a>. Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015713">24</a>. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015714">25</a>. Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015715">26</a>. He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015716">27</a>. He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015717">28</a>. And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015718">29</a>. So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015719">30</a>. They were not estranged from their lust.  But while their meat was yet in their mouths,</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015720">31</a>. The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015721">32</a>. For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015722">33</a>. Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015723">34</a>. When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015724">35</a>. And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015725">36</a>. Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015726">37</a>. For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015727">38</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015728">39</a>. For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015729">40</a>. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015730">41</a>. Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015731">42</a>. They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015732">43</a>. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015733">44</a>. And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015734">45</a>. He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015735">46</a>. He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015736">47</a>. He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015737">48</a>. He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015738">49</a>. He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015739">50</a>. He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015740">51</a>. And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015741">52</a>. But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015742">53</a>. And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015743">54</a>. And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015744">55</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015745">56</a>. Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015746">57</a>. But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015747">58</a>. For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015748">59</a>. When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015749">60</a>. So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015750">61</a>. And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015751">62</a>. He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015752">63</a>. The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015753">64</a>. Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015754">65</a>. Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015755">66</a>. And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015756">67</a>. Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015757">68</a>. But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015758">69</a>. And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015759">70</a>. He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015760">71</a>. From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1015761">72</a>. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.</li>
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