# Psalm 78 [[Ps-77|← Psalm 77]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-79|Psalm 79 →]] *** ###### v1 Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth. ###### v2 I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old, ###### v3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ###### v4 We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done. ###### v5 For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; ###### v6 that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children, ###### v7 that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God's deeds, but keep his commandments, ###### v8 and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God. ###### v9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. ###### v10 They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law. ###### v11 They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them. ###### v12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ###### v13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap. ###### v14 In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire. ###### v15 He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths. ###### v16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. ###### v17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert. ###### v18 They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire. ###### v19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? ###### v20 Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?" ###### v21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, ###### v22 because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation. ###### v23 Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven. ###### v24 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. ###### v25 Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full. ###### v26 He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind. ###### v27 He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas. ###### v28 He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations. ###### v29 So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire. ###### v30 They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths, ###### v31 when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their fattest, and struck down the young men of Israel. ###### v32 For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works. ###### v33 Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. ###### v34 When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly. ###### v35 They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer. ###### v36 But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue. ###### v37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant. ###### v38 But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath. ###### v39 He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again. ###### v40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert! ###### v41 They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. ###### v42 They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; ###### v43 how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan, ###### v44 he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink. ###### v45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. ###### v46 He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust. ###### v47 He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost. ###### v48 He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. ###### v49 He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil. ###### v50 He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence, ###### v51 and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. ###### v52 But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. ###### v53 He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. ###### v54 He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. ###### v55 He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. ###### v56 Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies, ###### v57 but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow. ###### v58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images. ###### v59 When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel, ###### v60 so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men, ###### v61 and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand. ###### v62 He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance. ###### v63 Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song. ###### v64 Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep. ###### v65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine. ###### v66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach. ###### v67 Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim, ###### v68 But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved. ###### v69 He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever. ###### v70 He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds; ###### v71 from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance. ###### v72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. *** [[Ps-77|← Psalm 77]] | [[Psalm]] | [[Ps-79|Psalm 79 →]]