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Psalms 78

Asaph retells Israel's history from the wilderness through Ephraim's failures, plagues in Egypt, the sanctuary, and God's choice of Judah and David, so the next generation will not repeat ancestral rebellion.

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Verses 1–8The people are commanded to teach God’s works to the next generation Verses 9–39Israel repeatedly forgets God despite his wonders, provision, and mercy in the wilderness Verses 40–72Israel continues rebelling; God judges, chooses Judah and Zion, and gives David as shepherd

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1Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your…2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will…3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have…4We will not hide them from their children, shewing to…5For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a…6That the generation to come might know them, even the…7That they might set their hope in God, and not…8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and…9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned…10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to…11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had…12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers,…13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through;…14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud,…15He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them…16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused…17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the…18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat…19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish…20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out,…21Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a…22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in…23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened…24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and…25Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to…26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven:…27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered…28And he let it fall in the midst of their…29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he…30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their…31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the…32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for…33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their…34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they…35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the…36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they…37For their heart was not right with him, neither were…38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and…39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind…40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and…41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the…42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he…43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his…44And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods,…45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured…46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their…47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees…48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and…49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath,…50He made a way to his anger; he spared not…51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of…52But made his own people to go forth like sheep,…53And he led them on safely, so that they feared…54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,…55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided…56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and…57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they…58For they provoked him to anger with their high places,…59When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred…60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent…61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into…62He gave his people over also unto the sword; and…63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were…64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made…65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and…66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he…67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not…68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which…69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the…70He chose David also his servant, and took him from…71From following the ewes great with young he brought him…72So he fed them according to the integrity of his…