Psalms 77 — UBES

77Verse 1A Psalm of instruction for Asaph.Give heed, O my people, to my law:
Incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
^{Verse 2}I will open my mouth in parables:
I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning.
^{Verse 3}All which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have declared to us.
^{Verse 4}They were not hidden from their children to a second generation;
The fathers declaring the praises of the Lord,
And his mighty acts,
And his wonders which he wrought.^{Verse 5}And he raised up a testimony in Jacob,
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which he commanded our fathers,
To make it known to their children:
^{Verse 6}That another generation might know,
Even the sons which should be born;
And they should arise and declare them to their children.
^{Verse 7}That they might set their hope on God,
And not forget the works of God,
But diligently seek his commandments.
^{Verse 8}That they should not be as their fathers,
A perverse and provoking generation;
A generation which set not its heart aright,
And its spirit was not steadfast with God.^{Verse 9}The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow,
Turned back in the day of battle.
^{Verse 10}They kept not the covenant of God,
And would not walk in his law.
^{Verse 11}And they forgot his benefits,
And his miracles which he had shown them;
^{Verse 12}The miracles which he wrought before their fathers,
In the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanis.
^{Verse 13}He clove the sea, and led them through:
He made the waters to stand as in a bottle.
^{Verse 14}And he guided them with a cloud by day,
And all the night with a light of fire.
^{Verse 15}He clove a rock in the wilderness,
And made them drink as in a great deep.
^{Verse 16}And he brought water out of the rock,
And caused waters to flow down as rivers.^{Verse 17}And they sinned yet more against him;
They provoked the Most High in the wilderness.
^{Verse 18}And they tempted God in their hearts,
In asking meat for the desire of their souls.
^{Verse 19}They spoke also against God, and said,
Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
^{Verse 20}Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed,
And the torrents ran abundantly;
Will he be able also to give bread,
Or prepare a table for his people?^{Verse 21}Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked:
And fire was kindled in Jacob,
And wrath went up against Israel.
^{Verse 22}Because they believed not in God,
And trusted not in his salvation.
^{Verse 23}Yet he commanded the clouds from above,
And opened the doors of heaven,
^{Verse 24}And rained upon them manna to eat,
And gave them the bread of heaven.
^{Verse 25}Man ate angels’ bread;
He sent them provision to the full.^{Verse 26}He removed the south wind from heaven;
And by his might he brought in the southwest wind.
^{Verse 27}And he rained upon them flesh like dust,
And feathered birds like the sand of the seas.
^{Verse 28}And they fell into the midst of their camp,
Round about their tents.
^{Verse 29}So they ate, and were completely filled;
And he gave them their desire.^{Verse 30}They were not disappointed of their desire:
But when their food was yet in their mouth,
^{Verse 31}Then the indignation of God rose up against them,
And slew the fattest of them,
And overthrew the choice men of Israel.^{Verse 32}In the midst of all this they sinned yet more,
And believed not his miracles.
^{Verse 33}And their days were consumed in vanity,
And their years with anxiety.^{Verse 34}When he slew them, they sought him:
And they returned and called betimes upon God.
^{Verse 35}And they remembered that God was their helper,
And the most high God was their redeemer.
^{Verse 36}Yet they loved him only with their mouth,
And lied to him with their tongue.
^{Verse 37}For their heart was not right with him,
Neither were they steadfast in his covenant.^{Verse 38}But he is compassionate,
And will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them:
Yea, he will frequently turn away his wrath,
And will not kindle all his anger.
^{Verse 39}And he remembered that they are flesh;
A wind that passes away, and returns not.^{Verse 40}How often did they provoke him in the wilderness,
And anger him in a dry land!
^{Verse 41}Yea, they turned back, and tempted God,
And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
^{Verse 42}They remembered not his hand,
The day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.
^{Verse 43}How he had wrought his signs in Egypt,
And his wonders in the field of Tanis:
^{Verse 44}And had changed their rivers into blood;
And their streams, that they should not drink.
^{Verse 45}He sent against them the dog fly, and it devoured them;
And the frog, and it spoiled them.
^{Verse 46}And he gave their fruit to the canker worm,
And their labors to the locust.
^{Verse 47}He killed their vines with hail,
And their sycamores with frost.
^{Verse 48}And he gave up their cattle to hail,
And their substance to the fire.
^{Verse 49}He sent out against them the fury of his anger,
Wrath, and indignation, and affliction,
A message by evil angels.
^{Verse 50}He made a way for his wrath;
He spared not their souls from death,
But consigned their cattle to death;
^{Verse 51}And smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt;
The firstfruits of their labors in the tents of Ham.
^{Verse 52}And he removed his people like sheep;
He led them as a flock in the wilderness.
^{Verse 53}And he guided them with hope, and they feared not:
But the sea covered their enemies.
^{Verse 54}And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary,
This mountain which his right hand had purchased.
^{Verse 55}And he cast out the nations from before them,
And made them to inherit by a line of inheritance,
And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.^{Verse 56}Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God,
And kept not his testimonies.
^{Verse 57}And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers:
They became like a crooked bow.
^{Verse 58}And they provoked him with their high places,
And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.^{Verse 59}God heard and lightly regarded them,
And greatly despised Israel.
^{Verse 60}And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh,
His tent where he dwelt among men.
^{Verse 61}And he gave their strength into captivity,
And their beauty into the enemy’s hand.
^{Verse 62}And he gave his people to the sword;
And disdained his inheritance.
^{Verse 63}Fire devoured their young men;
And their virgins mourned not.
^{Verse 64}Their priests fell by the sword;
And their widows shall not be wept for.^{Verse 65}So the Lord awoke as one out of sleep,
And as a mighty man who has been heated with wine.
^{Verse 66}And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts:
He brought on them a perpetual reproach.^{Verse 67}And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph,
And chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
^{Verse 68}But chose the tribe of Judah,
The Mount Zion which he loved.
^{Verse 69}And he built his sanctuary as the place of unicorns;
He founded it forever on the earth.
^{Verse 70}He chose David also his servant,
And took him up from the flocks of sheep.
^{Verse 71}He took him from following the ewes great with young,
To be the shepherd of Jacob his servant,
And Israel his inheritance.
^{Verse 72}So he tended them in the innocency of his heart;
And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.