DRC - Psalms - 77

77:1  Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

77:2  I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning.

77:3  How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

77:4  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.

77:5  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:

77:6  That another generation might know them. The children that should be born and should rise up, and declare them to their children.

77:7  That they may put their hope in God and may not forget the works of God: and may seek his commandments.

77:8  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.

77:9  The sons of Ephraim who bend and shoot with the bow: they have turned back in the day of battle.

77:10  They kept not the covenant of God: and in his law they would not walk.

77:11  And they forgot his benefits, and his wonders that he had shewn them.

77:12  Wonderful things did he do in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Tanis.

77:13  He divided the sea and brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a vessel.

77:14  And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire.

77:15  He struck the rock in the wilderness: and gave them to drink, as out of the great deep.

77:16  He brought forth water out of the rock: and made streams run down as rivers.

77:17  And they added yet more sin against him: they provoked the most High to wrath in the place without water.

77:18  And they tempted God in their hearts, by asking meat for their desires.

77:19  And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

77:20  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?

77:21  Therefore the Lord heard, and was angry: and a fire was kindled against Jacob, and wrath came up against Israel.

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

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

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

77:25  Man ate the bread of angels: he sent them provisions in abundance.

77:26  He removed the south wind from heaven: and by his power brought in the southwest wind.

77:27  And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

77:28  And they fell in the midst of their camp, round about their pavilions.

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

77:30  they were not defrauded of that which they craved. As yet their meat was in their mouth:

77:31  And the wrath of God came upon them. And he slew the fat ones amongst them, and brought down the chosen men of Israel.

77:32  In all these things they sinned still: and they behaved not for his wondrous works.

77:33  And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

77:34  When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and came to him early in the morning.

77:35  And they remembered that God was their helper: and the most high God their redeemer.

77:36  And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him:

77:37  But their heart was not right with him: nor were they counted faithful in his covenant.

77:38  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.

77:39  And he remembered that they are flesh: a wind that goeth and returneth not.

77:40  How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water?

77:41  And they turned back and tempted God: and grieved the holy one of Israel.

77:42  They remembered not his hand, in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of him that afflicted them:

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

77:44  And he turned their rivers into blood, and their showers that they might not drink.

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

77:46  And he gave up their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

77:47  And he destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry trees with hoarfrost.

77:48  And he gave up their cattle to the hail, and their stock to the fire.

77:49  And he sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation and wrath and trouble, which he sent by evil angels.

77:50  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.

77:51  And he killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt: the firstfruits of all their labour in the tabernacles of Cham.

77:52  And he took away his own people as sheep: and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

77:53  And he brought them out in hope and they feared not: and the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

77:54  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.

77:55  And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

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

77:57  And they turned away, and kept not the covenant: even like their fathers they were turned aside as a crooked bow.

77:58  They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

77:59  God heard, and despised them, and he reduced Israel exceedingly as it were to nothing.

77:60  And he put away the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle where he dwelt among men.

77:61  And he delivered their strength into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

77:62  And he shut up his people under the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

77:63  Fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not lamented.

77:64  Their priests fell by the sword: and their widows did not mourn.

77:65  And the Lord was awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that hath been surfeited with wine.

77:66  And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts: he put them to an everlasting reproach.

77:67  And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

77:68  But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

77:69  And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns, in the land which he founded for ever.

77:70  And he chose his servant David, and took him from the flocks of sheep: he brought him from following the ewes great with young,

77:71  To feed Jacob his servant and Israel his inheritance.

77:72  And he fed them in the innocence of his heart: and conducted them by the skilfulness of his hands.