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Psalms 77

## The Book of Psalms

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| # Chapter 78
| {An instruction. 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 riddles from of old,
| Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:
| We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.
| 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;
| That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,
| And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of łGod, but observe his commandments;
| And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with łGod.
| The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.
| They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
| And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
| In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
| He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;
| And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
| He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
| And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.
| Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;
| And they tempted łGod in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;
| And they spoke against God: they said, Is łGod able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
| Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?
| Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:
| Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
| Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
| And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
| Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
| He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
| And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,
| And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:
| And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
| They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
| When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
| For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;
| And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
| When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after łGod;
| And they remembered that God was their rock, and łGod, the Most High, their redeemer.
| But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;
| For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
| But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:
| And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
| How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
| And they turned again and tempted łGod, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.
| They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,
| How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;
| And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
| He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;
| And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;
| He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;
| And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.
| He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, -- a mission of angels of woes.
| He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
| And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.
| And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;
| And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.
| And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;
| And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
| But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
| And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.
| And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
| God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
| And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,
| And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;
| And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:
| The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;
| Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
| Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;
| And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.
| And he rejected the tent 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 the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.
| And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:
| From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
| And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.

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