Psalms 78
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will utter dark sayings of old,
and our fathers have told us.
his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.
that they should make them known to their children;
who should arise and tell their children,
but keep his commandments,
whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
turned back in the day of battle.
and refused to walk in his law.
his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
He made the waters stand as a heap.
and all night with a light of fire.
and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
and caused waters to run down like rivers.
to rebel against the Most High in the desert.
by asking food according to their desire.
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Will he provide meat for his people?”
anger also went up against Israel,
and didn’t trust in his salvation.
and opened the doors of heaven.
and gave them food from the sky.
He sent them food to the full.
By his power he guided the south wind.
winged birds as the sand of the seas.
around their habitations.
He gave them their own desire.
Their food was yet in their mouths,
and struck down the young men of Israel.
and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.
and their years in terror.
They returned and sought God earnestly.
the Most High God, their redeemer.
and lied to him with their tongue.
neither were they faithful in his covenant.
and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.
and grieved him in the desert!
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
his wonders in the field of Zoan,
and their streams, so that they could not drink.
and frogs, which destroyed them.
and their labor to the locust.
their sycamore fig trees with frost.
and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
and a band of angels of evil.
but gave their life over to the pestilence,
the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.
and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
and didn’t keep his testimonies,
They were twisted like a deceitful bow.
and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
and greatly abhorred Israel,
the tent which he placed among men,
his glory into the adversary’s hand.
and was angry with his inheritance.
Their virgins had no wedding song.
and their widows couldn’t weep.
like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Mount Zion which he loved.
like the earth which he has established forever.
and took him from the sheepfolds;
and Israel, his inheritance.
and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.