Psalms 77

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