78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
78:3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
78:4 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.
78:5 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;
78:6 That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,
78:8 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.
78:9 The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.
78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;
78:11 And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
78:13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
78:14 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.
78:22 Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.
78:23 Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;
78:24 And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.
78:25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.
78:26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.
78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:
78:28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.
78:29 So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.
78:30 They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,
78:31 When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
78:32 For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.
78:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
78:34 When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.
78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.
78:36 But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.
78:37 For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.
78:38 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.
78:39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
78:40 How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!
78:41 And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.
78:42 They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
78:43 How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,
78:44 And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.
