{"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/erv/psalms/78","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-31T07:49:39.115Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":78,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":77,"nextChapter":79,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":72},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Maschil 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 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 the LORD, 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 which 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 shewed them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Marvelous 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 an 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 meat for their lust."},{"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, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can he give bread also? will he provide flesh for his people?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Therefore the LORD 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 of the corn of heaven."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Man did eat the bread of the mighty: he sent them meat to the full."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He caused the east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he guided the south wind."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, and winged 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":"So they did eat, and were well filled; and he gave them that they lusted after."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They were not estranged from their lust, their meat 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 early."},{"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 full of compassion, 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 remembered 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, 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 caterpiller, and their labour 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 firstborn 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 purchased."},{"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 maidens 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 give suck he brought him, to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance."},{"verseNumber":72,"text":"So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 78 (ERV)","markdown":"[Psalms 78](https://primebible.com/erv/psalms/78)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/psalms/78 (accessed 2026-05-31)."}}