jps - 78

jps@Psalms:78:1 @ Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

jps@Psalms:78:2 @ I will open my mouth with a parable; I will utter dark sayings concerning days of old;

jps@Psalms:78:3 @ That which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us,

jps@Psalms:78:4 @ 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.

jps@Psalms:78:5 @ 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;

jps@Psalms:78:6 @ That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children,

jps@Psalms:78:7 @ That they might put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;

jps@Psalms:78:8 @ 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.

jps@Psalms:78:9 @ The children of Ephraim were as archers handling the bow, that turned back in the day of battle.

jps@Psalms:78:10 @ They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law;

jps@Psalms:78:11 @ And they forgot His doings, and His wondrous works that He had shown them.

jps@Psalms:78:12 @ Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

jps@Psalms:78:13 @ He cleaved the sea, and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand as a heap.

jps@Psalms:78:14 @ By day also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

jps@Psalms:78:15 @ He cleaved rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the great deep.

jps@Psalms:78:16 @ He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

jps@Psalms:78:17 @ Yet went they on still to sin against Him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

jps@Psalms:78:18 @ And they tried God in their heart by asking food for their craving.

jps@Psalms:78:19 @ Yea, they spoke against God; they said: 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

jps@Psalms:78:20 @ 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?'

jps@Psalms:78:21 @ Therefore the LORD heard, and was wroth; and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel;

jps@Psalms:78:22 @ Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in His salvation.

jps@Psalms:78:23 @ And He commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;

jps@Psalms:78:24 @ And He caused manna to rain upon them for food, and gave them of the corn of heaven.

jps@Psalms:78:25 @ Man did eat the bread of the mighty; He sent them provisions to the full.

jps@Psalms:78:26 @ He caused the east wind to set forth in heaven; and by His power He brought on the south wind.

jps@Psalms:78:27 @ He caused flesh also to rain upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas;

jps@Psalms:78:28 @ And He let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their dwellings.

jps@Psalms:78:29 @ So they did eat, and were well filled; and He gave them that which they craved.

jps@Psalms:78:30 @ They were not estranged from their craving, their food was yet in their mouths,

jps@Psalms:78:31 @ When the anger of God went up against them, and slew of the lustieth among them, and smote down the young men of Israel.

jps@Psalms:78:32 @ For all this they sinned still, and believed not in His wondrous works.

jps@Psalms:78:33 @ Therefore He ended their days as a breath, and their years in terror.

jps@Psalms:78:34 @ When He slew them, then they would inquire after Him, and turn back and seek God earnestly.

jps@Psalms:78:35 @ And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their redeemer.

jps@Psalms:78:36 @ But they beguiled Him with their mouth, and lied unto Him with their tongue.

jps@Psalms:78:37 @ For their heart was not stedfast with Him, neither were they faithful in His covenant.

jps@Psalms:78:38 @ 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.

jps@Psalms:78:39 @ So He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

jps@Psalms:78:40 @ How oft did they rebel against Him in the wilderness, and grieve Him in the desert!

jps@Psalms:78:41 @ And still again they tried God, and set bounds to the Holy One of Israel.

jps@Psalms:78:42 @ They remembered not His hand, nor the day when He redeemed them from the adversary.

jps@Psalms:78:43 @ How He set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field of Zoan;

jps@Psalms:78:44 @ And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.

jps@Psalms:78:45 @ He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

jps@Psalms:78:46 @ He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust.

jps@Psalms:78:47 @ He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.

jps@Psalms:78:48 @ He gave over their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to fiery bolts.

jps@Psalms:78:49 @ He sent forth upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, a sending of messengers of evil.

jps@Psalms:78:50 @ He levelled a path for His anger; He spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

jps@Psalms:78:51 @ And smote all the first-born in Egypt, the first-fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham;

jps@Psalms:78:52 @ But He made His own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

jps@Psalms:78:53 @ And He led them safely, and they feared not; but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

jps@Psalms:78:54 @ And He brought them to His holy border, to the mountain, which His right hand had gotten.

jps@Psalms:78:55 @ 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.

jps@Psalms:78:56 @ Yet they tried and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not His testimonies;

jps@Psalms:78:57 @ But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

jps@Psalms:78:58 @ For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.

jps@Psalms:78:59 @ God heard, and was wroth, and He greatly abhorred Israel;

jps@Psalms:78:60 @ And He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He had made to dwell among men;

jps@Psalms:78:61 @ And delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the adversary's hand.

jps@Psalms:78:62 @ He gave His people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with His inheritance.

jps@Psalms:78:63 @ Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins had no marriage-song.

jps@Psalms:78:64 @ Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

jps@Psalms:78:65 @ Then the Lord awaked as one asleep, like a mighty man recovering from wine.

jps@Psalms:78:66 @ And He smote His adversaries backward; He put upon them a perpetual reproach.

jps@Psalms:78:67 @ Moreover He abhorred the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

jps@Psalms:78:68 @ But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which He loved.

jps@Psalms:78:69 @ And He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which He hath founded for ever.

jps@Psalms:78:70 @ He chose David also His servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

jps@Psalms:78:71 @ From following the ewes that give suck He brought him, to be shepherd over Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

jps@Psalms:78:72 @ So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart; and lead them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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