Psalms
Psalm 78 ©
1 An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God. 9 The story of God's wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. 67 The Israelites being rejected, God chose Judah, Zion, and David.
1Maschil of Asaph.
I cwill open my mouth in a parable: I will utter ddark sayings of old:
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and 3carrying bows, oturned back in the day of battle.
They pkept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
And qforgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
He v*clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
He brought wstreams also out of xthe rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
And ythey sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.
Because dthey believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
5Man did eat angels' food: he sent them *meat hto the full.
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and 7feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
And jhe let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.
So kthey did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;
They lwere not estranged from their mlust. But while their *meat was yet in their mouths,
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the nfattest of them, and 8smote down the 9chosen men of Israel.
For oall this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Therefore ptheir days did he consume in qvanity, and their years in trouble.
Nevertheless uthey did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
How aoft did they 10provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
They remembered not chis hand, nor the day when he delivered them 11from the enemy.
And ehad turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
He fsent *divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and gfrogs, which destroyed them.
He hgave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
He 13destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with 14frost.
He 15gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to 16hot thunderbolts.
17He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave 18their life over to the pestilence;
And jsmote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the *tabernacles of kHam:
And he brought them oto the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
He pcast out the heathen also before them, and qdivided them an inheritance by rline, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Yet sthey tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
When God xheard this, he ywas *wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
Their dpriests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.