Psalms:78

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strkjv @Psalms:78:1 @Maschil of Asaph .Give ear , O my people , to my law : incline your ears to the words of my mouth . * I will open my mouth in a parable : I will utter dark sayings of old : * Which we have heard and known , and our fathers have told us . * We will not hide them from their children , shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD , and his strength , and his wonderful works that he hath done . * For he established a testimony in Jacob Ya #aqob #, and appointed a law in Israel Yisra #el #, which he commanded our fathers , that they should make them known to their children : * That the generation to come might know them , even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children : * That they might set their hope in God , and not forget the works of God , but keep his commandments : * 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 . * The children of Ephraim , being armed , and carrying bows , turned back in the day of battle . * They kept not the covenant of God , and refused to walk in his law ; * And forgat his works , and his wonders that he had shewed them . * Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers , in the land of Egypt , in the field of Zoan Tso #an #. * He divided the sea , and caused them to pass through ; and he made the waters to stand as an heap . * In the daytime also he led them with a cloud , and all the night with a light of fire . * He clave the rocks in the wilderness , and gave them drink as out of the great depths . * He brought streams also out of the rock , and caused waters to run down like rivers . * And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness . * And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust . * Yea , they spake against God ; they said , Can God furnish a table in the wilderness ? * Behold , he smote the rock , that the waters gushed out , and the streams overflowed ; can he give bread also ? can he provide flesh for his people ? * Therefore the LORD heard this , and was wroth : so a fire was kindled against Jacob Ya #aqob #, and anger also came up against Israel Yisra #el #; * Because they believed not in God , and trusted not in his salvation y @shuw #ah #: * Though he had commanded the clouds from above ma #al #, and opened the doors of heaven , * And had rained down manna upon them to eat , and had given them of the corn of heaven . * Man did eat angels food : he sent them meat to the full . * He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven : and by his power he brought in the south wind . * He rained flesh also upon them as dust , and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea : * And he let it fall in the midst of their camp , round about their habitations . * So they did eat , and were well filled : for he gave them their own desire ta #avah #; * They were not estranged from their lust ta #avah #. But while their meat was yet in their mouths , * The wrath of God came upon them , and slew the fattest of them , and smote down the chosen men of Israel Yisra #el #. * For all this they sinned still , and believed not for his wondrous works . * Therefore their days did he consume in vanity , and their years in trouble . * When he slew them , then they sought him : and they returned and enquired early after God .:34 When he slew them , then they sought him : and they returned and enquired early after God . * And they remembered that God was their rock , and the high God their redeemer . * Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth , and they lied unto him with their tongues . * For their heart was not right with him , neither were they stedfast in his covenant . * But he , being full of compassion , forgave their iniquity , and destroyed them not : yea , many a time turned # he his anger away , and did not stir up all his wrath . * For he remembered that they were but flesh ; a wind that passeth away , and cometh not again . * How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness , and grieve him in the desert ! * Yea , they turned back and tempted God , and limited the Holy One of Israel Yisra #el #. * They remembered not his hand , nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy . * How he had wrought his signs in Egypt , and his wonders in the field of Zoan Tso #an #: * And had turned their rivers into blood ; and their floods , that they could not drink . * He sent divers sorts of flies among them , which devoured them ; and frogs , which destroyed them . * He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller , and their labour unto the locust . * He destroyed their vines with hail , and their sycomore trees with frost . * He gave up their cattle also to the hail , and their flocks to hot thunderbolts . * He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger , wrath , and indignation za #am #, and trouble , by sending evil angels among them . * He made a way to his anger ; he spared not their soul from death , but gave # their life over to the pestilence ; * And smote all the firstborn in Egypt ; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham : * But made his own people to go forth like sheep tso #n #, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock . * And he led them on safely , so that they feared not : but the sea overwhelmed their enemies . * And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary , even to this mountain , which his right hand had purchased . * He cast out the heathen also before them , and divided them an inheritance by line , and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents . * Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God , and kept not his testimonies : * But turned back , and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers : they were turned aside like a deceitful bow . * For they provoked him to anger with their high places , and moved him to jealousy with their graven images . * When God heard this , he was wroth , and greatly abhorred Israel Yisra #el #: * So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh , the tent which he placed among men ; * And delivered his strength into captivity , and his glory into the enemys hand . * He gave # his people over also unto the sword ; and was wroth with his inheritance . * The fire consumed their young men ; and their maidens were not given to marriage . * Their priests fell by the sword ; and their widows made no lamentation . * Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep , and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine . * And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts : he put them to a perpetual reproach . * Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph , and chose not the tribe of Ephraim : * But chose the tribe of Judah , the mount Zion which he loved . * And he built his sanctuary like high palaces , like the earth which he hath established for ever . * He chose David also his servant , and took him from the sheepfolds #H6629 tso #n #: * From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people , and Israel his inheritance . * So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart ; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands .

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