{"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/dbt/psalms/78","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:21:28.945Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":78,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":77,"nextChapter":79,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":72},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"{An instruction. Of Asaph.} 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 riddles from 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 sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which 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, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but observe his commandments;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, 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 forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl 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":"And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God;"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, 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 firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:"},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!"},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,"},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;"},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;"},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;"},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;"},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;"},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts."},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, a mission of angels of woes."},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;"},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham."},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;"},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies."},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;"},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,"},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow."},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images."},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:"},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,"},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;"},{"verseNumber":62,"text":"And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:"},{"verseNumber":63,"text":"The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song;"},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation."},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;"},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach."},{"verseNumber":67,"text":"And he rejected 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 founded for ever."},{"verseNumber":70,"text":"And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:"},{"verseNumber":71,"text":"From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance."},{"verseNumber":72,"text":"And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 78 (DBT)","markdown":"[Psalms 78](https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/78)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/78 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}