Psalms 78 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^78:1 Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your⁺ ears to the words of my mouth.
^78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will gush out dark sayings of old,
^78:3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
^78:4 We will not hide them from their sons, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.
^78:5 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 sons;
^78:6 That the generation to come might know [them], even the sons who should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their sons,
^78:7 That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
^78:8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that did not set their heart aright, And whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
^78:9 The sons of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
^78:10 They did not keep the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
^78:11 And they forgot his doings, And his wondrous works that he had shown them.
^78:12 He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
^78:13 He split the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
^78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
^78:15 He split rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
^78:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.
^78:17 Yet they still went on to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.
^78:18 And they tried God in their heart By asking food according to their soul.
^78:19 Yes, they spoke against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
^78:20 Look, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?
^78:21 Therefore Yahweh heard, and was furious; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;
^78:22 Because they did not believe in God, And did not trust in his salvation.
^78:23 Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;
^78:24 And he rained down manna on them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.
^78:25 Man ate the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
^78:26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.
^78:27 He rained flesh also on them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
^78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.
^78:29 So they ate, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
^78:30 They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
^78:31 When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And struck down the young men of Israel.
^78:32 For all this they sinned still, And did not believe in his wondrous works.
^78:33 Therefore their days he consumed in vanity, And their years in terror.
^78:34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
^78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.
^78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied to him with their tongue.
^78:37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
^78:38 But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yes, many a time he turned his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath.
^78:39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passes away, and does not come again.
^78:40 How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, And grieved him in the desert!
^78:41 And they turned again and tried God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
^78:42 They did not remember his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
^78:43 How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
^78:44 And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.
^78:45 He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.
^78:46 He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, And their labor to the locust.
^78:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycamore trees with frost.
^78:48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.
^78:49 He cast on them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.
^78:50 He made a path for his anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
^78:51 And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
^78:52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
^78:53 And he led them safely, so that they did not fear; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
^78:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
^78:55 He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And caused the tribes of Israel to stay in their tents.
^78:56 Yet they tried and rebelled against the Most High God, And did not keep his testimonies;
^78:57 But turned back, and betrayed [him] like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
^78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
^78:59 When God heard [this], he was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel;
^78:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he made a place to stay among man;
^78:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand.
^78:62 He gave his people over also to the sword, And was furious with his inheritance.
^78:63 Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
^78:64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
^78:65 Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.
^78:66 And he struck his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
^78:67 Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
^78:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
^78:69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he has established forever.
^78:70 He chose David also his slave, And took him from the sheepfolds:
^78:71 From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.
^78:72 So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.

Psalms, Chapter 78