78:1 {An instruction. Of Asaph.} 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 riddles from 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 sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which 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], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,
78:7 And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of łGod, but observe his commandments;
78:8 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 łGod.
78:9 The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, 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 forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.
78:12 In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.
78:13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;
78:14 And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.
78:22 Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;
78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,
78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.
78:25 Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.
78:26 He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;
78:27 And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl 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 And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.
78:30 They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,
78:31 When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
78:32 For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;
78:33 And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
78:34 When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after łGod;
78:35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and łGod, the Most High, 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 firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
78:38 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:
78:39 And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.
