Psalms 77

Verse 1. Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Verse 2. I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

Verse 3. How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

Verse 4. They 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.

Verse 5. And 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:

Verse 6. That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.

Verse 7. That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

Verse 8. That 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.

Verse 9. The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

Verse 10. They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

Verse 11. And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.

Verse 12. Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.

Verse 13. He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

Verse 14. And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.

Verse 15. He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

Verse 16. He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

Verse 17. And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

Verse 18. And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

Verse 19. And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

Verse 20. Because 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?

Verse 21. Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.

Verse 22. Because they believed not in God: and trusted not in his salvation.

Verse 23. And he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of heaven.

Verse 24. And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven.

Verse 25. Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.

Verse 26. He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

Verse 27. And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

Verse 28. And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.

Verse 29. So they did eat, and were filled exceedingly, and he gave them their desire:

Verse 30. They were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

Verse 31. And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.

Verse 32. In all these things they sinned still: and they believed not for his wondrous works.

Verse 33. And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

Verse 34. When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

Verse 35. And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

Verse 36. And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:

Verse 37. But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

Verse 38. But 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.

Verse 39. And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

Verse 40. How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

Verse 41. And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

Verse 42. They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:

Verse 43. How he wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

Verse 44. And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink.

Verse 45. He sent amongst them divers sores of flies, which devoured them: and frogs which destroyed them.

Verse 46. And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

Verse 47. And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.

Verse 48. And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.

Verse 49. And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.

Verse 50. He made a way for a path to his anger: he spared not their souls from death, and their cattle he shut up in death.

Verse 51. And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

Verse 52. And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

Verse 53. And he brought them out in hope, and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

Verse 54. And 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.

Verse 55. And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Verse 56. Yet they tempted, and provoked the most high God: and they kept not his testimonies.

Verse 57. And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

Verse 58. They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

Verse 59. God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

Verse 60. And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

Verse 61. And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

Verse 62. And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

Verse 63. Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.

Verse 64. Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.

Verse 65. And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

Verse 66. And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.

Verse 67. And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

Verse 68. But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

Verse 69. And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.

Verse 70. And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,

Verse 71. To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.

Verse 72. And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skillfulness of his hands.