Psalm 78:title–31

Maschil of Asaph.

^aGive ear, O my people, to my law:

Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

^2bI will open my mouth in a ^cparable:

I will ^dutter ^edark sayings of old:

³Which we have heard and known,

And ^four fathers have told us.

^4gWe will not hide them from their children,

^hShewing to the generation to come

The praises of the Lord, and his strength,

And ⁱhis wonderful works that he hath done.

⁵For he established ^ja testimony in ^kJacob,

And appointed a law in ^kIsrael,

Which he commanded our fathers,

^gThat they should make them known to their children:

⁶That ^lthe generation to come might know them, even ^mthe children which should be born;

Who should arise and ^gdeclare them to their children:

⁷That they might set their ⁿhope in God,

And not forget the works of God,

But ⁿⁿkeep his commandments:

⁸And ^omight not be as their fathers,

A ^pqstubborn and ^prrebellious generation;

A generation that set not their heart aright,

And whose spirit was not ^sstedfast with God.

⁹The children of Ephraim, being ^tarmed, and carrying ^tubows,

^wTurned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God,

And refused to walk in his law;

¹¹And ^xforgat his works,

And ⁱhis wonders that he had shewed them.

^12yMarvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,

In the land of Egypt, in ^zthe field of Zoan.

¹³He ^adivided the sea, and caused them to pass through;

And he ^bmade the waters to stand as a heap.

^14cIn the daytime also he led them with a cloud,

And all the night with a light of fire.

^15dHe clave the rocks in the wilderness,

And gave them drink as out of the great depths.

¹⁶He brought ^ddstreams also out of ^ethe rock,

And caused waters to run down like rivers.

¹⁷And they sinned yet more against him

By ^fprovoking the most High in the ^gwilderness.

¹⁸And ^hthey tempted God in their heart

By asking meat for their lust.

¹⁹Yea, they spake against God; they said,

ⁱCan God furnish a table in the wilderness?

²⁰Behold, ^jhe smote the rock, that ^kthe waters gushed out,

And the streams overflowed;

Can he give bread also?

Can he ^lprovide flesh for his people?

²¹Therefore the Lord heard this, and ^mwas wroth:

So ⁿa fire was kindled against ^oJacob,

And anger also ^pcame up against ^oIsrael;

²²Because they ^qbelieved not in God,

And trusted not in his salvation:

²³Though he had commanded the clouds from above,

And ^ropened the doors of heaven,

²⁴And had ^srained down manna upon them to eat,

And had given them of ^tthe corn of heaven.

²⁵Man did eat ^uangels’ food:

He sent them meat ^wto the full.

²⁶He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven:

And by his power he ^xbrought in the south wind.

²⁷He rained flesh also upon them ^yas dust,

And feathered fowls like ^zas the sand of the sea:

^28aAnd he let it fall in the midst of their camp,

Round about their habitations.

^29bSo they did eat, and were well filled:

For he gave them their own ^cdesire;

³⁰They were not estranged from their ^clust.

But ^dwhile their meat was yet in their mouths,

³¹The wrath of God ^ecame upon them,

And slew the ^ffattest of them,

And smote down the chosen men of Israel.