Psalm 78:1-72 MEV

[1] Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. [2] I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter insightful sayings of old, [3] which we have heard and known, what our fathers have told us. [4] We will not hide them from their children, but will tell the coming generation the praises of the LORD, and His strength, and the wonderful works that He has done. [5] For He established a rule in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children, [6] that the generation to come might know them, even the children who are not yet born, who will 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 they might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not set their heart steadfast, and whose spirit was not faithful to God. [9] The people of Ephraim, being armed with bows, turned back in the day of battle. [10] They did not keep the covenant of God and refused to walk in His law; [11] and they forgot His works and the wonders that He had shown them. [12] In the sight of their ancestors He did marvelous wonders 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 He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. [15] He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them abundance to drink as out of the great depths. [16] He brought streams out of the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers. [17] They sinned yet more against Him by provoking the Most High in the wilderness. [18] They tested God in their heart by demanding the food that they craved. [19] They spoke against God by saying, "Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? [20] Behold, He struck the rock, so that the waters gushed out and the streams overflowed. Can He give bread or provide meat for His people?" [21] Therefore the LORD heard this and was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel, [22] because they did not believe in God nor trust in His deliverance. [23] Yet He had commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven, [24] and He rained down manna upon them to eat and gave them the grain of heaven. [25] Man ate the food of mighty angels; He sent them bread in abundance. [26] He caused an east wind to blow in the heavens, and by His power He brought out a south wind. [27] He rained meat on them as dust, and winged birds as the sand of the sea; [28] and He let them fall in the midst of their camp all around their habitations. [29] So they ate and were satisfied, for He gave them their own desire; [30] while they were not yet filled up, and while the meat was still in their mouths, [31] the wrath of God came upon them, and He killed the strongest of them and struck down the young men of Israel. [32] For all this they sinned still, and did not believe despite His wondrous works. [33] Therefore He made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in trouble. [34] When He killed them, then they sought Him; they turned back and longed for God. [35] They remembered that God was their rock, and the Most High God their redeemer. [36] Nevertheless they flattered Him with their mouth, and they lied to Him with their tongues; [37] for their heart was not devoted to Him, neither were they committed to His covenant. [38] But He being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He constantly restrained His anger, and did not stir up all His wrath; [39] for He remembered that they were but flesh, like a wind that passes away and does not return. [40] How often they provoked Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert! [41] Yes, they tested God over and over, and provoked the Holy One of Israel. [42] They did not remember His power, nor the day when He delivered them from the enemy, [43] how He had performed His signs in Egypt and His wonders in the fields of Zoan: [44] and He turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink from their streams. [45] He sent swarms of flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them. [46] He gave also their crops to the grasshopper and the fruit of their labor to 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 thunderbolts. [49] He cast upon them the fierceness of His anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, by sending angels bringing disaster. [50] He made a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague, [51] And struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, the first fruits of their strength in the tents of Ham. [52] Then He led out His own people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock; [53] He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. [54] He brought them to the border of His holy land, to the mountain that His right hand had acquired. [55] He cast out the nations also before them, and divided for them their tribal allotments, and made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents. [56] Yet they tested and provoked the Most High God, and did not keep His commands, [57] but turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers; they turned aside like a deceitful bow. [58] For they provoked Him to anger with their high places and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images. [59] When God heard this, He was full of wrath and greatly rejected Israel [60] so that He left the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where He lived among people, [61] and delivered His strength to captivity and His glory into the enemy's hand. [62] He gave His people over also to the sword; He was enraged with His inheritance. [63] The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not given to marriage in song. [64] Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation. [65] Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man who shouts because of wine. [66] He routed His enemies back, and He made them a perpetual reproach. [67] Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph, and He did not choose the tribe of Ephraim, [68] but chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which He loves. [69] He built His sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth that He has established perpetually. [70] He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds; [71] from following the nursing ewes He brought him to shepherd Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance. [72] So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.