Psalms 78 — GNV
78Verse 1A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.Verse 2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.Verse 3Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.Verse 4Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:Verse 5How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:Verse 6That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:Verse 7That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:Verse 8And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.Verse 9The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.Verse 10They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,Verse 11And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.Verse 12Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.Verse 13He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.Verse 14In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.Verse 15He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.Verse 16He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.Verse 17Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,Verse 18And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.Verse 19They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?Verse 20Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?Verse 21Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,Verse 22Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.Verse 23Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,Verse 24And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.Verse 25Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.Verse 26He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.Verse 27Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.Verse 28And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.Verse 29So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.Verse 30They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,Verse 31When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.Verse 32For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.Verse 33Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.Verse 34And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.Verse 35And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.Verse 36But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.Verse 37For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.Verse 38Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.Verse 39For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.Verse 40How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?Verse 41Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.Verse 42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,Verse 43Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,Verse 44And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.Verse 45Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.Verse 46He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.Verse 47He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.Verse 48He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.Verse 49Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.Verse 50He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,Verse 51And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.Verse 52But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.Verse 53Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.Verse 54And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.Verse 55He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.Verse 56Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,Verse 57But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.Verse 58And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.Verse 59God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,Verse 60So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,Verse 61And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.Verse 62And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.Verse 63The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.Verse 64Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.Verse 65But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,Verse 66And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.Verse 67Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:Verse 68But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.Verse 69And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.Verse 70He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.Verse 71Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.Verse 72So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.