78Psalms 78

PSAL. LXXVIII. / 1 An exhortation both to learne and to preach the Law of God. 9 The story of Gods wrath against the incredulous and disobedient. 67 The Israelites being reiected, God chose Iudah, Sio

1Giue eare, O my people, to my Lawe: incline your eares to the wordes of my mouth.Select Psalms 78:1

2I will open my mouth in a parable: I wil vtter darke sayings of old:Select Psalms 78:2

3Which we haue heard, & knowen: and our fathers haue told vs.Select Psalms 78:3

4We 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.Select Psalms 78:4

5For he established a Testimony in Iacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which he commaunded our fathers: that they should make them knowen to their children.Select Psalms 78:5

6That the generation to come might know them, euen the children which should be borne: who should arise and declare them to their children:Select Psalms 78:6

7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements,Select Psalms 78:7

8And might not bee as their fathers, a stubborne and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.Select Psalms 78:8

9The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell.Select Psalms 78:9

10They kept not the couenant of God: and refused to walke in his Law:Select Psalms 78:10

11And forgat his workes: and his wonders that he had shewed them.Select Psalms 78:11

12Marueilous things did he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.Select Psalms 78:12

13Hee diuided the Sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heape.Select Psalms 78:13

14In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night with a light of fire.Select Psalms 78:14

15Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes.Select Psalms 78:15

16Hee brought streames also out of the rocke, and caused waters to runne downe like riuers.Select Psalms 78:16

17And they sinned yet more against him: by prouoking the most High in the wildernes.Select Psalms 78:17

18And they tempted God in their heart: by asking meat for their lust.Select Psalms 78:18

19Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wildernes?Select Psalms 78:19

20Behold, he smote the rocke, that the waters gushed out, & the streames ouerflowed; can he giue bread also? can he prouide flesh for his people?Select Psalms 78:20

21Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth, so a fire was kindled against Iacob: and anger also came vp against Israel.Select Psalms 78:21

22Because they beleeued not in God: and trusted not in his saluation:Select Psalms 78:22

23Though he had commanded the cloudes from aboue: and opened the doores of heauen:Select Psalms 78:23

24And had rained downe Manna vpon them to eate, and had giuen them of the corne of heauen.Select Psalms 78:24

25Man did eate Angels food: hee sent them meat to the full.Select Psalms 78:25

26He caused an East wind to blow in the heauen: and by his power hee brought in the South wind.Select Psalms 78:26

27He rained flesh also vpon them as dust: and feathered soules like as the sand of the sea.Select Psalms 78:27

28And hee let it fall in the midst of their campe, round about their habitations.Select Psalms 78:28

29So they did eate, & were well filled: for he gaue them their owne desire.Select Psalms 78:29

30They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meate was yet in their mouthes,Select Psalms 78:30

31The wrath of God came vpon them, and slew the fattest of them: and smote downe the chosen men of Israel.Select Psalms 78:31

32For all this they sinned still: and beleeued not for his wondrous works.Select Psalms 78:32

33Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble.Select Psalms 78:33

34When hee slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and inquired early after God.Select Psalms 78:34

35And they remembred that God was their rocke: and the high God, their redeemer.Select Psalms 78:35

36Neuerthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth: and they lyed vnto him with their tongues.Select Psalms 78:36

37For their heart was not right with him: neither were they stedfast in his couenant.Select Psalms 78:37

38But hee being full of compassion, forgaue their iniquity, and destroyed them not; yea many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.Select Psalms 78:38

39For he remembred that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and commeth not againe.Select Psalms 78:39

40How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernesse: and grieue him in the desert?Select Psalms 78:40

41Yea they turned backe and tempted God: and limited the holy one of Israel.Select Psalms 78:41

42They remembred not his hand: nor the day when hee deliuered them from the enemie:Select Psalms 78:42

43How he had wrought his signes in Egypt: and his wonders in the field of Zoan:Select Psalms 78:43

44And had turned their riuers into blood: and their flouds, that they could not drinke.Select Psalms 78:44

45Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them.Select Psalms 78:45

46He gaue also their increase vnto the caterpiller: and their labour vnto the locust.Select Psalms 78:46

47He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost.Select Psalms 78:47

48He gaue vp their cattel also to the haile: and their flockes to hot thunder-bolts.Select Psalms 78:48

49He cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, wrath and indignation, and trouble: by sending euill angels among them.Select Psalms 78:49

50He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence.Select Psalms 78:50

51And smote all the first borne in Egypt: the chiefe of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:Select Psalms 78:51

52But made his owne people to goe forth like sheepe: and guided them in the wildernesse like a flocke.Select Psalms 78:52

53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea ouerwhelmed their enemies.Select Psalms 78:53

54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountaine which his right hand had purchased.Select Psalms 78:54

55He cast out the heathen also before them, and diuided them an inheritance by line: and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.Select Psalms 78:55

56Yet they tempted and prouoked the most high God: and kept not his testimonies:Select Psalms 78:56

57But turned backe, and dealt vnfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitfull bowe.Select Psalms 78:57

58For they prouoked him to anger with their high places: and moued him to ielousie with their grauen images.Select Psalms 78:58

59When God heard this, hee was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:Select Psalms 78:59

60So that he forsooke the tabernacle of Shiloh: the tent which he placed among men,Select Psalms 78:60

61And deliuered his strength into captiuitie: and his glory into the enemies hand.Select Psalms 78:61

62He gaue his people ouer also vnto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance.Select Psalms 78:62

63The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not giuen to mariage.Select Psalms 78:63

64Their priests fell by the sword: and their widowes made no lamentation.Select Psalms 78:64

65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe: and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.Select Psalms 78:65

66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetuall reproch.Select Psalms 78:66

67Moreouer he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim.Select Psalms 78:67

68But chose the tribe of Iudah: the mount Sion which he loued.Select Psalms 78:68

69And he built his sanctuarie like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for euer.Select Psalms 78:69

70He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the sheepe-folds:Select Psalms 78:70

71From following the ewes great with young, hee brought him to feed Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.Select Psalms 78:71

72So he fed them according to the integritie of his heart: and guided them by the skilfulnesse of his hands.Select Psalms 78:72