mkjv - Psalms:78

mkjv@Psalms:78:1 @ An instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, [to] my law; bow down your ears to the words of my mouth.

mkjv@Psalms:78:2 @ I will open my mouth in a parable; I will speak dark sayings of old,

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

mkjv@Psalms:78:4 @ We will not hide [them] from their sons, showing to the generations to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and His wonderful works that He has done.

mkjv@Psalms:78:5 @ For He set up a testimony in Jacob, and ordered a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should teach them to their sons;

mkjv@Psalms:78:6 @ so that the generation to come might know; sons shall be born, and they shall arise [and] tell their sons,

mkjv@Psalms:78:7 @ so that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;

mkjv@Psalms:78:8 @ and might not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation [that] did not set their heart aright, and whose spirit was not faithful with God.

mkjv@Psalms:78:9 @ The sons of Ephraim, armed shooters of bows, turned back in the day of battle.

mkjv@Psalms:78:10 @ They did not keep the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law.

mkjv@Psalms:78:11 @ And they forgot His works and His wonders which He had shown them.

mkjv@Psalms:78:12 @ He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan.

mkjv@Psalms:78:13 @ He divided the sea and caused them to pass through; and He made the waters to stand in a heap.

mkjv@Psalms:78:14 @ And in the daytime He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

mkjv@Psalms:78:15 @ He split the rocks in the wilderness, and let [them] drink, as [from] the great depths.

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

mkjv@Psalms:78:17 @ And they sinned still more against Him, by provoking the Most High in the wilderness.

mkjv@Psalms:78:18 @ And they tempted God in their heart by asking food for their lust.

mkjv@Psalms:78:19 @ And they spoke against God; they said, Can God set a table in the wilderness?

mkjv@Psalms:78:20 @ Behold! He struck the rock so that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can He also give bread? Can He provide flesh for His people?

mkjv@Psalms:78:21 @ Therefore the LORD heard, and was made furious; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel,

mkjv@Psalms:78:22 @ because they did not believe in God, and did not trust in His salvation;

mkjv@Psalms:78:23 @ though He had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens;

mkjv@Psalms:78:24 @ and had rained down manna on them to eat, and He gave them of the grain of the heavens.

mkjv@Psalms:78:25 @ Man ate the food of the mighty; He sent them meat to the full.

mkjv@Psalms:78:26 @ He caused an east [wind] to blow in the sky; and by His power He brought in the south [wind].

mkjv@Psalms:78:27 @ and He also rained flesh on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea;

mkjv@Psalms:78:28 @ and He let [them] fall in the middle of their camp, all around their tents.

mkjv@Psalms:78:29 @ So they ate, and were filled to the full; for He gave them their own desire.

mkjv@Psalms:78:30 @ They were not turned away from their lust, but while their food [was] still in their mouths,

mkjv@Psalms:78:31 @ the wrath of God came on them and killed the fattest of them, and struck down the chosen of Israel.

mkjv@Psalms:78:32 @ For all this they still sinned, and did not believe because of His wonderful works.

mkjv@Psalms:78:33 @ Therefore He ended their days in vanity and their years in trouble.

mkjv@Psalms:78:34 @ When He killed them, then they looked for Him; and they turned back and sought after God.

mkjv@Psalms:78:35 @ And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the Most High God was their redeemer.

mkjv@Psalms:78:36 @ But they flattered Him with their mouths, and they lied to Him with their tongues.

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

mkjv@Psalms:78:38 @ But He, full of pity, forgave their iniquity, and did not destroy [them]; yea, many times He turned His anger away, and did not stir up all His wrath.

mkjv@Psalms:78:39 @ For He remembered that they [were but] flesh, a wind that passes away and does not come again.

mkjv@Psalms:78:40 @ How often they provoked Him in the wilderness, and grieved Him in the desert!

mkjv@Psalms:78:41 @ Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and pained to the Holy One of Israel.

mkjv@Psalms:78:42 @ They did not remember His hand, the day when He delivered them from the enemy;

mkjv@Psalms:78:43 @ how He had set His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the fields of Zoan.

mkjv@Psalms:78:44 @ He turned their rivers into blood, and their floods, [so that] they could not drink.

mkjv@Psalms:78:45 @ He sent different kinds of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

mkjv@Psalms:78:46 @ He also gave their crops to the stripping locust, and their labor to the locust.

mkjv@Psalms:78:47 @ He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with sleet.

mkjv@Psalms:78:48 @ He gave up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to bolts of fire.

mkjv@Psalms:78:49 @ He sent on them the heat of His anger, wrath and fury and trouble, by sending evil angels.

mkjv@Psalms:78:50 @ He made a way to His anger; He did not save their soul from death, but gave their life over to the plague,

mkjv@Psalms:78:51 @ and struck all the first-born in Egypt, the first of the strong in the tents of Ham;

mkjv@Psalms:78:52 @ and led His people forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

mkjv@Psalms:78:53 @ And He led them on safely, so that they did not fear; but the sea flooded over their enemies.

mkjv@Psalms:78:54 @ And He brought them within His own holy border, this mountain, [which] His right hand had bought.

mkjv@Psalms:78:55 @ He also cast out the nations before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

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

mkjv@Psalms:78:57 @ but they turned back, and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they were turned aside like a deceiving bow.

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

mkjv@Psalms:78:59 @ When God heard, He was angry, and turned away from Israel;

mkjv@Psalms:78:60 @ so that He left the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] He placed among men,

mkjv@Psalms:78:61 @ and delivered His strength into captivity, and His glory into the enemy's hands.

mkjv@Psalms:78:62 @ He also gave His people over to the sword, and was angry with His inheritance.

mkjv@Psalms:78:63 @ The fire burned up their young men; and their maidens were not given in marriage.

mkjv@Psalms:78:64 @ Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows were not able to weep.

mkjv@Psalms:78:65 @ Then the Lord awakened like one out of sleep, like a mighty man rejoicing with wine.

mkjv@Psalms:78:66 @ And He drove His enemies backward; He put them to a never-ending shame.

mkjv@Psalms:78:67 @ And He refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;

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

mkjv@Psalms:78:69 @ And He built His holy place like high [palaces], like the earth which He has founded forever.

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

mkjv@Psalms:78:71 @ from following the ewes great with young He brought him to feed Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.

mkjv@Psalms:78:72 @ And he fed them according to the pureness of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.