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Psalm 78
Maschil of Asaph.
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will utter dark sayings of old,
And our fathers have told us.
Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah,
And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which he commanded our fathers,
That they should make them known to their children;
Who should arise and tell them to their children,
And not forget the works of God,
But keep his commandments,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that set not their heart aright,
And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Turned back in the day of battle.
And refused to walk in his law;
And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
And all the night with a light of fire.
And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
And caused waters to run down like rivers.
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
By asking food according to their desire.
They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
And streams overflowed;
Can he give bread also?
Will he provide flesh for his people?
And a fire was kindled against Jacob,
And anger also went up against Israel;
And trusted not in his salvation.
And opened the doors of heaven;
And gave them food from heaven.
He sent them food to the full.
And by his power he guided the south wind.
And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
Round about their habitations.
And he gave them their own desire.
Their food was yet in their mouths,
And slew of the fattest of them,
And smote down the young men of Israel.
And believed not in his wondrous works.
And their years in terror.
And they returned and sought God earnestly.
And the Most High God their redeemer.
And lied unto him with their tongue.
Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
Yea, many a time turned he his anger away,
And did not stir up all his wrath.
A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
And grieve him in the desert!
And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
And their streams, so that they could not drink.
And frogs, which destroyed them.
And their labor unto the locust.
And their sycomore-trees with frost.
And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
Wrath, and indignation, and trouble,
A band of angels of evil.
He spared not their soul from death,
But gave their life over to the pestilence,
The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
And allotted them for an inheritance by line,
And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
And kept not his testimonies;
They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
And greatly abhorred Israel;
The tent which he placed among men;
And his glory into the adversary’s hand.
And was wroth with his inheritance.
And their virgins had no marriage-song.
And their widows made no lamentation.
Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,
The mount Zion which he loved.
Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
And took him from the sheepfolds:
To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.