{"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/kjv/psalms/78","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-29T17:28:22.994Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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, <i>to</i> 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 <i>them</i> from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful 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 <i>them, even</i> the children <i>which</i> should be born; <i>who</i> should arise and declare <i>them</i> 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 <i>that</i> set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"The children of Ephraim, <i>being</i> armed, <i>and</i> 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 forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, <i>in</i> the field of Zoan."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave <i>them</i> drink as <i>out of</i> the great depths."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness."},{"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 furnish a table in the wilderness?"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Therefore the LORD heard <i>this</i>, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And he let <i>it</i> fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat <i>was</i> yet in their mouths,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen <i>men</i> of Israel."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"And they remembered that God <i>was</i> their rock, and the high God their redeemer."},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues."},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant."},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"But he, <i>being</i> full of compassion, forgave <i>their</i> iniquity, and destroyed <i>them</i> not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"For he remembered that they <i>were but</i> flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again."},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, <i>and</i> grieve him in the desert!"},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel."},{"verseNumber":42,"text":"They remembered not his hand, <i>nor</i> the day when he delivered them from the enemy."},{"verseNumber":43,"text":"How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:"},{"verseNumber":44,"text":"And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink."},{"verseNumber":45,"text":"He sent divers sorts of flies among them, 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 up 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, by sending evil angels <i>among them</i>."},{"verseNumber":50,"text":"He made a way to 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 <i>their</i> strength in the tabernacles of Ham:"},{"verseNumber":52,"text":"But 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 on 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, <i>even to</i> this mountain, <i>which</i> his right hand had purchased."},{"verseNumber":55,"text":"He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents."},{"verseNumber":56,"text":"Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:"},{"verseNumber":57,"text":"But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully 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 <i>this</i>, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:"},{"verseNumber":60,"text":"So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent <i>which</i> he placed among men;"},{"verseNumber":61,"text":"And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand."},{"verseNumber":62,"text":"He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance."},{"verseNumber":63,"text":"The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage."},{"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, <i>and</i> like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine."},{"verseNumber":66,"text":"And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach."},{"verseNumber":67,"text":"Moreover he refused the tabernacle 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 high <i>palaces</i>, 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 great with young 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 (KJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 78](https://primebible.com/kjv/psalms/78)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/psalms/78 (accessed 2026-05-29)."}}