Psalms 78

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(Ps 78:1) Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
(Ps 78:2) I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
(Ps 78:3) Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
(Ps 78:4) We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
(Ps 78:5) For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;
(Ps 78:6) that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,
(Ps 78:7) that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,
(Ps 78:8) and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
(Ps 78:9) The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
(Ps 78:10) They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
(Ps 78:11) They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.
(Ps 78:12) He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
(Ps 78:13) He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.
(Ps 78:14) In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.
(Ps 78:15) He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
(Ps 78:16) He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
(Ps 78:17) Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
(Ps 78:18) They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.
(Ps 78:19) Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
(Ps 78:20) Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
(Ps 78:21) Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,
(Ps 78:22) because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.
(Ps 78:23) Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.
(Ps 78:24) He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
(Ps 78:25) Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
(Ps 78:26) He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.
(Ps 78:27) He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
(Ps 78:28) He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.
(Ps 78:29) So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.
(Ps 78:30) They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,
(Ps 78:31) when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.
(Ps 78:32) For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.
(Ps 78:33) Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
(Ps 78:34) When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.
(Ps 78:35) They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.
(Ps 78:36) But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
(Ps 78:37) For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.
(Ps 78:38) But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.
(Ps 78:39) He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.
(Ps 78:40) How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!
(Ps 78:41) They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
(Ps 78:42) They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
(Ps 78:43) how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
(Ps 78:44) he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.
(Ps 78:45) He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
(Ps 78:46) He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.
(Ps 78:47) He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
(Ps 78:48) He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
(Ps 78:49) He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
(Ps 78:50) He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,
(Ps 78:51) and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
(Ps 78:52) But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
(Ps 78:53) He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
(Ps 78:54) He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
(Ps 78:55) He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
(Ps 78:56) Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;
(Ps 78:57) but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
(Ps 78:58) For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
(Ps 78:59) When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;
(Ps 78:60) So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
(Ps 78:61) and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.
(Ps 78:62) He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.
(Ps 78:63) Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.
(Ps 78:64) Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.
(Ps 78:65) Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
(Ps 78:66) He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
(Ps 78:67) Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,
(Ps 78:68) But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.
(Ps 78:69) He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
(Ps 78:70) He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;
(Ps 78:71) from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.
(Ps 78:72) So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. A Psalm by Asaph.