Psalm 78:1-72 CSB

[1] My people, hear my instruction; listen to the words from my mouth. [2] I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past- [3] things we have heard and known and that our ancestors have passed down to us. [4] We will not hide them from their children, but will tell a future generation the praiseworthy acts of the LORD, his might, and the wondrous works he has performed. [5] He established a testimony in Jacob and set up a law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach to their children [6] so that a future generation- children yet to be born-might know. They were to rise and tell their children [7] so that they might put their confidence in God and not forget God's works, but keep his commands. [8] Then they would not be like their ancestors, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal and whose spirit was not faithful to God. [9] The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle. [10] They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by his law. [11] They forgot what he had done, the wondrous works he had shown them. [12] He worked wonders in the sight of their ancestors in the land of Egypt, the territory of Zoan. [13] He split the sea and brought them across; the water stood firm like a wall. [14] He led them with a cloud by day and with a fiery light throughout the night. [15] He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the depths. [16] He brought streams out of the stone and made water flow down like rivers. [17] But they continued to sin against him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. [18] They deliberately tested God, demanding the food they craved. [19] They spoke against God, saying, "Is God able to provide food in the wilderness? [20] Look! He struck the rock and water gushed out; torrents overflowed. But can he also provide bread or furnish meat for his people?" [21] Therefore, the LORD heard and became furious; then fire broke out against Jacob, and anger flared up against Israel [22] because they did not believe God or rely on his salvation. [23] He gave a command to the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven. [24] He rained manna for them to eat; he gave them grain from heaven. [25] People ate the bread of angels. He sent them an abundant supply of food. [26] He made the east wind blow in the skies and drove the south wind by his might. [27] He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the seas. [28] He made them fall in the camp, all around the tents. [29] The people ate and were completely satisfied, for he gave them what they craved. [30] Before they had turned from what they craved, while the food was still in their mouths, [31] God's anger flared up against them, and he killed some of their best men. He struck down Israel's fit young men. [32] Despite all this, they kept sinning and did not believe his wondrous works. [33] He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster. [34] When he killed some of them, the rest began to seek him; they repented and searched for God. [35] They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their Redeemer. [36] But they deceived him with their mouths, they lied to him with their tongues, [37] their hearts were insincere toward him, and they were unfaithful to his covenant. [38] Yet he was compassionate; he atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often turned his anger aside and did not unleash all his wrath. [39] He remembered that they were only 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 constantly tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel. [42] They did not remember his power shown on the day he redeemed them from the foe, [43] when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt and his wonders in the territory of Zoan. [44] He turned their rivers into blood, and they could not drink from their streams. [45] He sent among them swarms of flies, which fed on them, and frogs, which devastated them. [46] He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust. [47] He killed their vines with hail and their sycamore fig trees with a flood. [48] He handed over their livestock to hail and their cattle to lightning bolts. [49] He sent his burning anger against them: fury, indignation, and calamity- a band of deadly messengers. [50] He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague. [51] He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the first progeny of the tents of Ham. [52] He led his people out like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness. [53] He led them safely, and they were not afraid; but the sea covered their enemies. [54] He brought them to his holy territory, to the mountain his right hand acquired. [55] He drove out nations before them. He apportioned their inheritance by lot and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. [56] But they rebelliously tested the Most High God, for they did not keep his decrees. [57] They treacherously turned away like their ancestors; they became warped like a faulty bow. [58] They enraged him with their high places and provoked his jealousy with their carved images. [59] God heard and became furious; he completely rejected Israel. [60] He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he resided among mankind. [61] He gave up his strength to captivity and his splendor to the hand of a foe. [62] He surrendered his people to the sword because he was enraged with his heritage. [63] Fire consumed his chosen young men, and his young women had no wedding songs. [64] His priests fell by the sword, and the widows could not lament. [65] The Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine. [66] He beat back his foes; he gave them lasting disgrace. [67] He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim. [68] He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loved. [69] He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that he established forever. [70] He chose David his servant and took him from the sheep pens; [71] he brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over his people Jacob- over Israel, his inheritance. [72] He shepherded them with a pure heart and guided them with his skillful hands.