Psalms
| Psalms 78:27 |
He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas: |
| Psalms 78:28 |
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations. |
| Psalms 78:29 |
So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire. |
| Psalms 78:30 |
They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths, |
| Psalms 78:31 |
When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel. |
| Psalms 78:32 |
For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works. |
| Psalms 78:33 |
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror. |
| Psalms 78:34 |
When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly. |
| Psalms 78:35 |
And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer. |
| Psalms 78:36 |
But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue. |
| Psalms 78:37 |
For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant. |
| Psalms 78:38 |
But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath. |
| Psalms 78:39 |
And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. |
| Psalms 78:40 |
How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert! |
| Psalms 78:41 |
And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel. |
| Psalms 78:42 |
They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; |
| Psalms 78:43 |
How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan, |
| Psalms 78:44 |
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink. |
| Psalms 78:45 |
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them. |
| Psalms 78:46 |
He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust. |
| Psalms 78:47 |
He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost. |
| Psalms 78:48 |
He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. |
| Psalms 78:49 |
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil. |
| Psalms 78:50 |
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence, |
| Psalms 78:51 |
And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. |
| Psalms 78:52 |
But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. |
| Psalms 78:53 |
And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. |
| Psalms 78:54 |
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten. |
| Psalms 78:55 |
He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
| Psalms 78:56 |
Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies; |
| Psalms 78:57 |
But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. |
| Psalms 78:58 |
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
| Psalms 78:59 |
When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel; |
| Psalms 78:60 |
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men; |
| Psalms 78:61 |
And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand. |
| Psalms 78:62 |
He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance. |
| Psalms 78:63 |
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song. |
| Psalms 78:64 |
Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation. |
| Psalms 78:65 |
Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. |
| Psalms 78:66 |
And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach. |
| Psalms 78:67 |
Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim, |
| Psalms 78:68 |
But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved. |
| Psalms 78:69 |
And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever. |
| Psalms 78:70 |
He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds: |
| Psalms 78:71 |
From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
| Psalms 78:72 |
So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. |
| Psalms 79:1 |
[A Psalm of Asaph]. O God, the nations are come into thine inheritance; Thy holy temple have they defiled; They have laid Jerusalem in heaps. |
| Psalms 79:2 |
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. |
| Psalms 79:3 |
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them. |
| Psalms 79:4 |
We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us. |
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