{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/asv/psalms/78","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T19:33:49.368Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":78,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":77,"nextChapter":79,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":72},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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 children;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"That the generation to come might know them , even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell them to their children,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!"},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;"},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,"},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them."},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust."},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost."},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts."},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil."},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,"},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock."},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies."},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten."},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;"},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow."},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images."},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"When God heard this , he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;"},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;"},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand."},{"verseNumber":62,"text":"He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance."},{"verseNumber":63,"text":"Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song."},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation."},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine."},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach."},{"verseNumber":67,"text":"Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,"},{"verseNumber":68,"text":"But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved."},{"verseNumber":69,"text":"And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever."},{"verseNumber":70,"text":"He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:"},{"verseNumber":71,"text":"From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance."},{"verseNumber":72,"text":"So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. 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