Psalms 78
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PSALM 78
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
Maschil of Asaph.
1Attend, my people, to my law;
thereto give thou an ear;
The words that from my mouth proceed
attentively do hear.
2My mouth shall speak a parable,
and sayings dark of old;
3The same which we have heard and known,
and us our fathers told.
4We also will them not conceal
from their posterity;
Them to the generation
to come declare will we:
The praises of the Lord our God,
and his almighty strength,
The wondrous works that he hath done,
we will shew forth at length.
5His testimony and his law
in Isr'el he did place,
And charg'd our fathers it to show
to their succeeding race;
6That so the race which was to come
might well them learn and know;
And sons unborn, who should arise,
might to their sons them show:
7That they might set their hope in God,
and suffer not to fall
His mighty works out of their mind,
but keep his precepts all:
8And might not, like their fathers, be
a stiff rebellious race;
A race not right in heart; with God
whose sp'rit not stedfast was.
9The sons of Ephraim, who nor bows
nor other arms did lack,
When as the day of battle was,
they faintly turned back.
10They brake God's cov'nant,
and refus'd in his commands to go;
11His works and wonders they forgot,
which he to them did show.
12Things marvellous he brought to pass;
their fathers them beheld
Within the land of Egypt done,
yea, ev'n in Zoan's field.
13By him divided was the sea,
he caus'd them through to pass;
And made the waters so to stand,
as like an heap it was.
14With cloud by day, with light of fire
all night, he did them guide.
15In desert rocks he clave,
and drink, as from great depths, supply'd.
16He from the rock brought streams, like floods
made waters to run down.
17Yet sinning more, in desert they
provok'd the Highest One.
18For in their heart they tempted God,
and, speaking with mistrust,
They greedily did meat require
to satisfy their lust.
19Against the Lord himself they spake,
and, murmuring, said thus,
A table in the wilderness
can God prepare for us?
20Behold, he smote the rock, and thence
came streams and waters great;
But can he give his people bread?
and send them flesh to eat?
21The Lord did hear, and waxed wroth;
so kindled was a flame
'Gainst Jacob, and 'gainst Israel
up indignation came.
22For they believ'd not God, nor trust
in his salvation had;
23Though clouds above he did command,
and heav'n's doors open made,
24And manna rain'd on them,
and gave them corn of heav'n to eat.
25Man angels' food did eat; to them
he to the full sent meat.
26And in the heaven he did cause
an eastern wind to blow;
And by his power he let out
the southern wind to go.
27Then flesh as thick as dust he made
to rain down them among;
And feather'd fowls, like as the sand
which li'th the shore along.
28At his command amidst their camp
these show'rs of flesh down fell,
All round about the tabernacles
and tents where they did dwell.
29So they did eat abundantly,
and had of meat their fill;
For he did give to them what was
their own desire and will.
30They from their lust had not estrang'd
their heart and their desire;
But while the meat was in their mouths,
which they did so require,
31God's wrath upon them came,
and slew the fattest of them all;
So that the choice of Israel,
o'erthrown by death, did fall.
32Yet, notwithstanding of all this,
they sinned still the more;
And though he had great wonders wrought,
believ'd him not therefore:
33Wherefore their days in vanity
he did consume and waste;
And by his wrath their wretched years
away in trouble past.
34But when he slew them, then they did
to seek him shew desire;
Yea, they return'd, and after God
right early did enquire.
35And that the Lord had been their Rock,
they did remember then;
Ev'n that the high almighty God
had their Redeemer been.
36Yet with their mouth they flatter'd him,
and spake but feignedly;
And they unto the God of truth
with their false tongues did lie.
37For though their words were good, their heart
with him was not sincere;
Unstedfast and perfidious
they in his cov'nant were.
38But, full of pity, he forgave
their sin, them did not slay;
Nor stirr'd up all his wrath, but oft
his anger turn'd away.
39For that they were but fading flesh
to mind he did recall;
A wind that passeth soon away,
and not returns at all.
40How often did they him provoke
within the wilderness!
And in the desert did him grieve
with their rebelliousness!
41Yea, turning back, they tempted God,
and limits set upon
Him, who in midst of Isr'el is
the only Holy One.
42They did not call to mind his pow'r,
nor yet the day when he
Deliver'd them out of the hand
of their fierce enemy;
43Nor how great signs in Egypt land
he openly had wrought;
What miracles in Zoan's field
his hand to pass had brought.
44How lakes and rivers ev'ry where
he turned into blood;
So that nor man nor beast could drink
of standing lake or flood.
45He brought among them swarms of flies,
which did them sore annoy;
And divers kinds of filthy frogs
he sent them to destroy.
46He to the caterpillar gave
the fruits of all their soil;
Their labours he deliver'd up
unto the locusts' spoil.
47Their vines with hail, their sycamores
he with the frost did blast:
48Their beasts to hail he gave; their flocks
hot thunderbolts did waste.
49Fierce burning wrath he on them cast,
and indignation strong,
And troubles sore, by sending forth
ill angels them among.
50He to his wrath made way; their soul
from death he did not save;
But over to the pestilence
the lives of them he gave.
51In Egypt land the first-born all
he smote down ev'ry where;
Among the tents of Ham, ev'n these
chief of their strength that were.
52But his own people, like to sheep,
thence to go forth he made;
And he, amidst the wilderness,
them, as a flock, did lead.
53And he them safely on did lead,
so that they did not fear;
Whereas their en'mies by the sea
quite overwhelmed were.
54To borders of his sanctuary
the Lord his people led,
Ev'n to the mount which his right hand
for them had purchased.
55The nations of Canaan,
by his almighty hand,
Before their face he did expel
out of their native land;
Which for inheritance to them
by line he did divide,
And made the tribes of Israel
within their tents abide.
56Yet God most high they did provoke,
and tempted ever still;
And to observe his testimonies
did not incline their will:
57But, like their fathers, turned back,
and dealt unfaithfully:
Aside they turned, like a bow
that shoots deceitfully.
58For they to anger did provoke
him with their places high;
And with their graven images
mov'd him to jealousy.
59When God heard this, he waxed wroth,
and much loath'd Isr'el then:
60So Shiloh's tent he left, the tent
which he had plac'd with men.
61And he his strength delivered
into captivity;
He left his glory in the hand
of his proud enemy.
62His people also he gave o'er
unto the sword's fierce rage:
So sore his wrath inflamed was
against his heritage.
63The fire consum'd their choice young men;
their maids no marriage had;
64And when their priests fell by the sword,
their wives no mourning made.
65But then the Lord arose, as one
that doth from sleep awake;
And like a giant that, by wine
refresh'd, a shout doth make:
66Upon his en'mies' hinder parts
he made his stroke to fall;
And so upon them he did put
a shame perpetual.
67Moreover, he the tabernacle
of Joseph did refuse;
The mighty tribe of Ephraim
he would in no wise chuse:
68But he did chuse Jehudah's tribe
to be the rest above;
And of mount Sion he made choice,
which he so much did love.
69And he his sanctuary built
like to a palace high,
Like to the earth which he did found
to perpetuity.
70Of David, that his servant was,
he also choice did make,
And even from the folds of sheep
was pleased him to take:
71From waiting on the ewes with young,
he brought him forth to feed
Israel, his inheritance,
his people, Jacob's seed.
72So after the integrity
he of his heart them fed;
And by the good skill of his hands
them wisely governed.
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Psalms 78
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PSALM 78
1 The learning of Asaph. My people, perceive ye my law; bow your ear into the words of my mouth.
2I shall open my mouth in parables; I shall speak perfect reasons [or propositions] from the beginning.
3How great things have we heard, and we have known those [or them]; and our fathers told to us.
4Those [or They] be not hid from the sons of them; in another generation. And they told the praisings of the Lord, and the virtues of him; and his marvels, which he did.
5And he raised witnessing in Jacob; and he setted law in Israel. How great things commanded he to our fathers, to make those known to their sons;
6that another generation know. Sons, that shall be born, and shall rise up; shall tell out to their sons.
7That they set [or put] their hope in God, and forget not the works of God; and that they seek or search his commandments.
8Lest they be made a shrewd generation; and stirring to wrath, as the fathers of them. A generation that dressed not his heart; and his spirit was not believed with God.
9The sons of Ephraim, bending a bow, and sending arrows; were turned in the day of battle.
10They kept not the testament of God; and they would not go in his law.
11And they forgat his benificences [or benefits]; and his marvels, which he showed to them.
12He did marvels before the fathers of them, in the land of Egypt; in the field of Tanis.
13He brake the sea, and led them through it; and he ordained the waters as in a bouget [or bottle].
14And he led them forth in a cloud of the day; and all night in the lightening of fire.
15He brake a stone in desert; and he gave water to them as in a much depth.
16And he led water out of the stone; and he led forth waters as floods.
17And they putted yet to do sin against him; they excited the high God into ire, in a place without water.
18And they tempted God in their hearts; that they asked meats to their lives.
19And they spake evil of God; they said, Whether God may make ready a board in desert?
20For he smote a stone, and waters flowed; and streams went out in abundance. Whether also he may give bread; either make ready a board to his people?
21Therefore the Lord heard, and delayed; and fire was kindled in Jacob, and the ire of God ascended [or went up] on Israel.
22For they believed not in God; neither hoped in his health.
23And he commanded to the clouds above; and he opened the gates of heaven.
24And he rained to them manna for to eat; and he gave to them bread of heaven.
25Man ate the bread of angels; he sent to them meats in abundance.
26He turned over the south wind from heaven; and he brought in by his virtue the west wind.
27And he rained fleshes as dust on them; and also volatiles feathered, as the gravel of the sea.
28And those felled in the midst of their castles [or they fell in the middle of the tents of them]; about the taber-nacles of them.
29And they ate, and were filled greatly, and he brought their desire to them;
30they were not defrauded of their desire. Yet their meats were in their mouth;
31and the wrath of God ascended [or went up] on them. And he killed the fat men of them; and he hindered the chosen men of Israel.
32In all these things they sinned yet; and believed not in the marvels of God.
33And the days of them failed in vanity; and the years of them failed with haste.
34When he killed them, they sought him; and they turned again, and early they came to him.
35And they bethought, that God is the helper of them; and the high God is the again-buyer of them.
36And they loved him in their mouth; and with their tongue they lied to him.
37Forsooth the heart of them was not rightful [or right] with him; neither they were had faithful in his testament.
38But he is merciful, and he shall be made merciful to the sins of them; and he shall not destroy them. And he did greatly, to turn away his ire; and he kindled not all his ire.
39And he bethought, that they be flesh; a spirit going, and not turning again.
40How oft made they him wroth in desert; they stirred him into ire in a place without water.
41And they were turned, and tempted God; and they wrathed the Holy of Israel.
42They bethought not on his hand; in the day in which he again-bought them from the hand of the troubler.
43As he setted [or put] his signs in Egypt; and his great wonders in the field of Tanis.
44And he turned the floods of them, and the rains of them, into blood; that they should not drink.
45He sent a flesh fly [or hound flea] into them, and it ate them; and he sent a paddock [or frog], and it lost them.
46And he gave the fruits of them to rust; and he gave the travails of them to locusts.
47And he killed the vines of them with hail; and the sycamore trees of them with frost.
48And he betook the beasts of them to hail; and the possessions of them to fire.
49He sent into them the ire of his indignation; indignation, and ire, and tribulation, sendings-in by evil angels.
50He made a way to the path of his ire, and he spared not from the death of their lives; and he enclosed alto-gether in death the beasts of them.
51And he smote all the first engen-dered things [or first begotten] in the land of Egypt; the first fruits of all the travail of them in the tabernacles of Ham.
52And he took away his people as sheep; and he led them forth as a flock in desert.
53And he led them forth in hope, and they dreaded not; and the sea covered the enemies of them.
54And he brought them into the hill of his hallowing; into the hill which his right hand gat.
55And he casted out heathen men from the face of them; and by lot he parted to them the land in a cord of dealing. And he made the lineages of Israel to dwell in the tabernacles of them.
56And they tempted, and wrathed the high God; and they kept not his witnessings.
57And they turned away themselves, and they kept not covenant; as their fathers they were turned into a shrewd bow.
58They stirred him into ire in their little hills; and they stirred him to indignation in their graven images.
59God heard, and forsook; and brought to nought Israel greatly.
60And he putted [or put] away the tabernacle of Shiloh; his tabernacle in which he dwelled among men.
61And he betook the virtue of them into captivity; and the fairness of them into the hands of the enemy.
62And he enclosed altogether his people in sword; and he despised his heritage.
63Fire ate the young men of them; and the virgins of them were not bewailed or bewept.
64The priests of them fell down by sword; and the widows of them were not bewept.
65And the Lord was raised, as sleeping; as mighty greatly filled [or drunk] of wine.
66And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts; he gave to them ever-lasting shame.
67And he putted [or put] away the tabernacle of Joseph; and he chose not the lineage of Ephraim.
68But he chose the lineage of Judah; he chose the hill of Zion, which he loved.
69And he as an unicorn builded his holy place; in the land, which he founded into worlds.
70And he chose David his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep;
71he took him from behind sheep with lambs. To feed Jacob his servant; and Israel his heritage.
72And he fed them in the inno-cence of his heart; and he led them forth in the understandings of his hands.
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