Psalm / Psalm 78 (part 1)

Psalm 78 (part 1)

Psalm 78:1-44

Chapter 78

¹ A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, my people, to my Torah; incline your ear to the sayings of my mouth. I will open with a proverb; I will declare riddles from antiquity. ² which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. ³ which we have heard and known, and our fathers have recounted to us— ⁴ He established a testimony in Jacob and a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to make known to their children. ⁵ For the sake of a later generation, sons being born will arise and tell their sons. ⁶ that they might know God as their confidence and not forget the deeds of God and his commandments they would keep. ⁷ They will set their hope in God, and they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart right and whose spirit was not faithful to God. ⁸ They will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set its heart right and whose spirit was not faithful to God. ⁹ They did not keep the covenant of God, and in his Torah they refused to walk. ¹⁰ They forgot his deeds and wonders that he showed them. ¹¹ And they forgot his wondrous deeds and his divine wonders that he had shown their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ¹² In the presence of their fathers he did a wonder in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He split the Sea and caused them to pass through, and he stood the waters like a heap. ¹³ And he led them by a cloud by day and all the night in a light of fire. ¹⁴ He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as from great abysses. ¹⁵ And he split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as from great primordial deeps. ¹⁶ And he brought forth streams from the rock and brought waters down like rivers. ¹⁷ And they continued still to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the drought. ¹⁸ And they tested God in the wilderness, saying, "Can God set a table in the wilderness?" ¹⁹ Behold, he struck the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he even give bread? Will he prepare a table in the wilderness? ²⁰ So the LORD heard and was angry; fire was kindled in Jacob, and anger also rose up in Israel. ²¹ They did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation. ²² For they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation. ²³ He commanded the heavens above, and he opened the doors of the heavens. ²⁴ He caused the bread of the mighty ones to rain upon them—manna to eat—and he gave them grain of the heavens for satisfaction. ²⁵ Man ate the bread of the mighty ones; he sent them provision and satisfied them. ²⁶ And he caused winged fowl to rain upon them like dust and like the sand of the seas. ²⁷ He rained meat on them like dust, wings of birds like the sand of the seas. ²⁸ And they ate and were very satisfied, and he brought their desire to them. ²⁹ And they ate and were greatly filled, and their desire came to them. ³⁰ And God even rose up in them, and he struck down their fat ones, and he caused the choice ones of Israel to bow down. ³¹ In all this they still sinned and did not believe in his wonders. ³² And they finished their days in their vanity, and their years in terror. ³³ And he finished them in their vanity in their days and their years in terror. ³⁴ And they remembered that God was their rock and the Most High God their redeemer. ³⁵ And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their Redeemer. ³⁶ But their heart was not upright with him, and they were not faithful to his covenant. ³⁷ But their heart was not established with him, and they were not faithful in his covenant. ³⁸ But he, being compassionate, would atone for iniquity and not destroy. He multiplied his resolve to return his anger and did not stir up all his wrath. ³⁹ He remembered that they are flesh, a wind that passes and does not return. ⁴⁰ How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert! ⁴¹ They turned back and tested the Holy One of Israel. They did not remember his hand, the day when he redeemed them from the foe. ⁴² They did not remember his hand, the day he redeemed them from distress, which they set in Egypt, his signs and his wonders in the field of Zoan. ⁴³ He turned their Nile to blood; they will not drink their streams. ⁴⁴ He sent swarms against them and they ate them up, and frogs and they destroyed them.