engojps: Psalms 78

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 [1] Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.  [2] I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;  [3] That which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us,  [4] We will not hide from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and His wondrous works that He hath done.  [5] 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;  [6] That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children,  [7] That they might put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;  [8] 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.  [9] The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle.  [10] They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law;  [11] And they forgot His doings, and His wondrous works that He had shown them.  [12] Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.  [13] He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap.  [14] By day also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.  [15] He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.  [16] He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.  [17] Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.  [18] And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving.  [19] Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?  [20] Behold, He smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can He give bread also? or will He provide flesh for His people?'  [21] Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel;  [22] Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.  [23] And He commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;  [24] And He caused manna to rain upon them for food, and gave them of the corn of heaven.  [25] Man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to the full.  [26] He caused the east wind to set forth in heaven; and by His power He brought on the south wind.  [27] He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas;  [28] And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their dwellings.  [29] So they did eat, and were well filled; and He gave them that which they craved.  [30] They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths,  [31] When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the lustieth among them, and smote down the young men of Israel.  [32] For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His wondrous works.  [33] Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.  [34] When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him, and turn back and seek God earnestly.  [35] And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.  [36] But they beguiled Him with their mouth, and lied unto Him with their tongue.  [37] For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.  [38] But He, being full of compassion, forgiveth iniquity, and destroyeth not; yea, many a time doth He turn His anger away, and doth not stir up all His wrath.  [39] So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.  [40] How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!  [41] And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.  [42] They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary.  [43] How He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;  [44] And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.  [45] He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.  [46] He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.  [47] He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.  [48] He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.  [49] He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a sending of messengers of evil.  [50] He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;  [51] And smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;  [52] But He made His own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.  [53] And He led them safely, and they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.  [54] And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.  [55] He drove out the nations also before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.  [56] Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;  [57] But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.  [58] For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.  [59] God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel;  [60] And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;  [61] And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand.  [62] He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance.  [63] Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.  [64] Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.  [65] Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.  [66] And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.  [67] Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;  [68] But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved.  [69] And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever.  [70] He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;  [71] From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.  [72] So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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