Psalms 78

Geneva 1599A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.

Geneva 1599I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.

Geneva 1599Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.

Geneva 1599Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:

Geneva 1599How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:

Geneva 1599That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:

Geneva 1599That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:

Geneva 1599And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.

Geneva 1599The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.

Geneva 1599They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,

Geneva 1599And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.

Geneva 1599Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.

Geneva 1599He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.

Geneva 1599In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.

Geneva 1599He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.

Geneva 1599He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.

Geneva 1599Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,

Geneva 1599And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.

Geneva 1599They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?

Geneva 1599Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?

Geneva 1599Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,

Geneva 1599Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.

Geneva 1599Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,

Geneva 1599And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.

Geneva 1599Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.

Geneva 1599He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.

Geneva 1599Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.

Geneva 1599And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.

Geneva 1599So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.

Geneva 1599They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,

Geneva 1599When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.

Geneva 1599For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.

Geneva 1599Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.

Geneva 1599And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.

Geneva 1599And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.

Geneva 1599But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.

Geneva 1599For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.

Geneva 1599Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.

Geneva 1599For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.

Geneva 1599How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?

Geneva 1599Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.

Geneva 1599They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,

Geneva 1599Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,

Geneva 1599And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.

Geneva 1599Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.

Geneva 1599He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.

Geneva 1599He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.

Geneva 1599He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.

Geneva 1599Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.

Geneva 1599He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,

Geneva 1599And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.

Geneva 1599But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.

Geneva 1599Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.

Geneva 1599And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.

Geneva 1599He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

Geneva 1599Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,

Geneva 1599But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.

Geneva 1599And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.

Geneva 1599God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,

Geneva 1599So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,

Geneva 1599And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.

Geneva 1599And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.

Geneva 1599The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.

Geneva 1599Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.

Geneva 1599But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,

Geneva 1599And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.

Geneva 1599Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

Geneva 1599But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.

Geneva 1599And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.

Geneva 1599He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.

Geneva 1599Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.

Geneva 1599So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.