(Psa 78) "Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. {2} I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: {3} Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. {4} We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. {5} 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: {6} That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: {7} That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: {8} And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. {9} The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. {10} They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; {11} And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them. {12} Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. {13} He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap. {14} In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. {15} He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. {16} He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. {17} And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. {18} And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. {19} Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? {20} Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people? {21} Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; {22} Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: {23} Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, {24} And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. {25} Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. {26} He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind. {27} He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea: {28} And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. {29} So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; {30} They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, {31} The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. {32} For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. {33} Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble. {34} When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God. {35} And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. {36} Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues. {37} For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. {38} But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. {39} For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. {40} How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! {41} Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. {42} They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. {43} How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: {44} And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink. {45} He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them. {46} He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust. {47} He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost. {48} He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. {49} He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. {50} He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; {51} And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: {52} But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. {53} And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. {54} And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased. {55} He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. {56} Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: {57} But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow. {58} For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. {59} When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: {60} So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; {61} And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. {62} He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. {63} The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. {64} Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. {65} Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. {66} And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach. {67} Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: {68} But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. {69} And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever. {70} He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: {71} From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. {72} So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands."