{"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/drb/psalms/78","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T11:05:58.150Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":78,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":77,"nextChapter":79,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":72},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which he hath done. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"And he set up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, that they should make the same known to their children: "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"that another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Because he struck the rock, and the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed. Can he also give bread, or provide a table for his people? "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire: "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth: "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"and the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel. "},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for his wondrous works. "},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste. "},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning. "},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer. "},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him: "},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant. "},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"But he is merciful, and will forgive their sins: and will not destroy them. And many a time did he turn away his anger: and did not kindle all his wrath. "},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not. "},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water? "},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel. "},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them: "},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis. "},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might, not drink. "},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"He sent amongst them divers sores of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them. "},{"verseNumber":46,"text":"And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust. "},{"verseNumber":47,"text":"And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost. "},{"verseNumber":48,"text":"And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire. "},{"verseNumber":49,"text":"And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels. "},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death. "},{"verseNumber":51,"text":"And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham. "},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. "},{"verseNumber":53,"text":"And he brought them out in hope, and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies. "},{"verseNumber":54,"text":"And he brought them into the mountain of his sanctuary: the mountain which his right hand had purchased. And he cast out the Gentiles before them: and by lot divided to them their land by a line of distribution. "},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles. "},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies. "},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow. "},{"verseNumber":58,"text":"They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things. "},{"verseNumber":59,"text":"God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing. "},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men. "},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy. "},{"verseNumber":62,"text":"And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance. "},{"verseNumber":63,"text":"Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented. "},{"verseNumber":64,"text":"Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn. "},{"verseNumber":65,"text":"And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine. "},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach. "},{"verseNumber":67,"text":"And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: "},{"verseNumber":68,"text":"But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved. "},{"verseNumber":69,"text":"And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever. "},{"verseNumber":70,"text":"And he chose his servant David, and took him from the hocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young, "},{"verseNumber":71,"text":"To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance. "},{"verseNumber":72,"text":"And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands. 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