Psalm 78:1-72 KJ21

[1] 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 to our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; [6] that the generation to come might know them, even the children who 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 so might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast 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] they forgot His works and His wonders that He had shown them. [12] Marvelous 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 a heap. [14] In the daytime also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. [15] He cleaved 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 for meat for their lust. [19] Yea, they spoke 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 rose 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 ate 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 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 ate and were well filled, for He gave them their own desire. [30] But 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 in 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 flattered Him with their mouth, and they lied unto Him with their tongues. [37] For their heart was not right with Him, neither were they steadfast 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 tested 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 streams, 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 harvest unto the caterpillar, and their labor 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, indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. [50] He made a path 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 He 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 apportioned them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. [56] Yet they tested 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 loved 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 had 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 awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. [66] And He smote His enemies in the hinder parts, and laid upon them 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 also chose David 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 skillfulness of his hands.