77:0 KJV Chapter [78] Maschil of Asaph:

77:1 Give ear, O my people, [to] my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth:

77:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

77:3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:

77:4 We will not hide [them] 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:

77:5 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:

77:6 That the generation to come might know [them, even] the children [which] should be born; [who] should arise and declare [them] to their children:

77:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

77:8 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:

77:9 The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle:

77:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law:

77:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them:

77:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, [in] the field of Zoan:

77:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap:

77:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire:

77:15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as [out of] the great depths:

77:16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers:

77:17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness:

77:18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust:

77:19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness:

77:20 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:

77:21 Therefore the LORD heard [this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel:

77:22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

77:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven:

77:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven:

77:25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full:

77:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind:

77:27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

77:28 And he let [it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:

77:29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire:

77:30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat [was] yet in their mouths:

77:31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen [men] of Israel:

77:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works:

77:33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble:

77:34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God:

77:35 And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer:

77:36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues:

77:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant:

77:38 But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath:

77:39 For he remembered that they [were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again:

77:40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, [and] grieve him in the desert:

77:41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel:

77:42 They remembered not his hand, [nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy:

77:43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

77:44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink:

77:45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them:

77:46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust:

77:47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost:

77:48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts:

77:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels:

77:50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence:

77:51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of [their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

77:52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock:

77:53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies:

77:54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, [even to] this mountain, [which] his right hand had purchased:

77:55 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:

77:56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

77:57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow:

77:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images:

77:59 When God heard [this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

77:60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men:

77:61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy' s hand:

77:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance:

77:63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage:

77:64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation:

77:65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, [and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine:

77:66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach:

77:67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

77:68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved:

77:69 And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever:

77:70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

77:71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance:

77:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands: