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¹ [Maschil of Asaph.] Giue eare, O my people, to my Lawe: incline your eares to the wordes of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in a parable: I wil vtter darke sayings of old: ³ Which we haue heard, & knowen: and our fathers haue told vs. ⁴ We 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. ⁵ For 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. ⁶ That the generation to come might know them, euen the children which should be borne: who should arise and declare them to their children: ⁷ That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements, ⁸ And 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.

⁹ The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell. ¹⁰ They kept not the couenant of God: and refused to walke in his Law: ¹¹ And forgat his workes: and his wonders that he had shewed them. ¹² Marueilous things did he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ¹³ Hee diuided the Sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heape. ¹⁴ In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes. ¹⁶ Hee brought streames also out of the rocke, and caused waters to runne downe like riuers. ¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him: by prouoking the most High in the wildernes. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart: by asking meat for their lust. ¹⁹ Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wildernes? ²⁰ Behold, he smote the rocke, that the waters gushed out, & the streames ouerflowed; can he giue bread also? Can he prouide flesh for his people? ²¹ Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth, so a fire was kindled against Iacob: and anger also came vp against Israel. ²² Because they beleeued not in God: and trusted not in his saluation: ²³ Though he had commanded the cloudes from aboue: and opened the doores of heauen: ²⁴ And had rained downe Manna vpon them to eate, and had giuen them of the corne of heauen. ²⁵ Man did eate Angels food: hee sent them meat to the full. ²⁶ He caused an East wind to blow in the heauen: and by his power hee brought in the South wind. ²⁷ He rained flesh also vpon them as dust: and feathered soules like as the sand of the sea. ²⁸ And hee let it fall in the midst of their campe, round about their habitations. ²⁹ So they did eate, & were well filled: for he gaue them their owne desire. ³⁰ They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meate was yet in their mouthes, ³¹ The wrath of God came vpon them, and slew the fattest of them: and smote downe the chosen men of Israel. ³² For all this they sinned still: and beleeued not for his wondrous works. ³³ Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble. ³⁴ When hee slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and inquired early after God. ³⁵ And they remembred that God was their rocke: and the high God, their redeemer. ³⁶ Neuerthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth: and they lyed vnto him with their tongues. ³⁷ For their heart was not right with him: neither were they stedfast in his couenant. ³⁸ But 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. ³⁹ For he remembred that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and commeth not againe.

⁴⁰ How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernesse: and grieue him in the desert? ⁴¹ Yea they turned backe and tempted God: and limited the holy one of Israel. ⁴² They remembred not his hand: nor the day when hee deliuered them from the enemie: ⁴³ How he had wrought his signes in Egypt: and his wonders in the field of Zoan: ⁴⁴ And had turned their riuers into blood: and their flouds, that they could not drinke. ⁴⁵ Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ He gaue also their increase vnto the caterpiller: and their labour vnto the locust. ⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost. ⁴⁸ He gaue vp their cattel also to the haile: and their flockes to hot thunder-bolts. ⁴⁹ He cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, wrath and indignation, and trouble: by sending euill angels among them. ⁵⁰ He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence. ⁵¹ And smote all the first borne in Egypt: the chiefe of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: ⁵² But made his owne people to goe forth like sheepe: and guided them in the wildernesse like a flocke. ⁵³ And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea ouerwhelmed their enemies. ⁵⁴ And he brought them to the border of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountaine which his right hand had purchased. ⁵⁵ He 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. ⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and prouoked the most high God: and kept not his testimonies: ⁵⁷ But turned backe, and dealt vnfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitfull bowe. ⁵⁸ For they prouoked him to anger with their high places: and moued him to ielousie with their grauen images. ⁵⁹ When God heard this, hee was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: ⁶⁰ So that he forsooke the tabernacle of Shiloh: the tent which he placed among men, ⁶¹ And deliuered his strength into captiuitie: and his glory into the enemies hand. ⁶² He gaue his people ouer also vnto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance. ⁶³ The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not giuen to mariage. ⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword: and their widowes made no lamentation. ⁶⁵ Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe: and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. ⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetuall reproch. ⁶⁷ Moreouer he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Iudah: the mount Sion which he loued. ⁷⁰ And he built his sanctuarie like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for euer. ⁷¹ He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the sheepe-folds: ⁷² From following the ewes great with young, hee brought him to feed Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

span data-lang="eng" data-trans="kja" data-ref="psa.78.1" class="versetxt">¹ [Maschil of Asaph.] Giue eare, O my people, to my Lawe: incline your eares to the wordes of my mouth. ² I will open my mouth in a parable: I wil vtter darke sayings of old: ³ Which we haue heard, & knowen: and our fathers haue told vs. ⁴ We 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. ⁵ For 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. ⁶ That the generation to come might know them, euen the children which should be borne: who should arise and declare them to their children: ⁷ That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements, ⁸ And 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.

⁹ The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell. ¹⁰ They kept not the couenant of God: and refused to walke in his Law: ¹¹ And forgat his workes: and his wonders that he had shewed them. ¹² Marueilous things did he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. ¹³ Hee diuided the Sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heape. ¹⁴ In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night with a light of fire. ¹⁵ Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes. ¹⁶ Hee brought streames also out of the rocke, and caused waters to runne downe like riuers. ¹⁷ And they sinned yet more against him: by prouoking the most High in the wildernes. ¹⁸ And they tempted God in their heart: by asking meat for their lust. ¹⁹ Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wildernes? ²⁰ Behold, he smote the rocke, that the waters gushed out, & the streames ouerflowed; can he giue bread also? Can he prouide flesh for his people? ²¹ Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth, so a fire was kindled against Iacob: and anger also came vp against Israel. ²² Because they beleeued not in God: and trusted not in his saluation: ²³ Though he had commanded the cloudes from aboue: and opened the doores of heauen: ²⁴ And had rained downe Manna vpon them to eate, and had giuen them of the corne of heauen. ²⁵ Man did eate Angels food: hee sent them meat to the full. ²⁶ He caused an East wind to blow in the heauen: and by his power hee brought in the South wind. ²⁷ He rained flesh also vpon them as dust: and feathered soules like as the sand of the sea. ²⁸ And hee let it fall in the midst of their campe, round about their habitations. ²⁹ So they did eate, & were well filled: for he gaue them their owne desire. ³⁰ They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meate was yet in their mouthes, ³¹ The wrath of God came vpon them, and slew the fattest of them: and smote downe the chosen men of Israel. ³² For all this they sinned still: and beleeued not for his wondrous works. ³³ Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble. ³⁴ When hee slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and inquired early after God. ³⁵ And they remembred that God was their rocke: and the high God, their redeemer. ³⁶ Neuerthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth: and they lyed vnto him with their tongues. ³⁷ For their heart was not right with him: neither were they stedfast in his couenant. ³⁸ But 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. ³⁹ For he remembred that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and commeth not againe.

⁴⁰ How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernesse: and grieue him in the desert? ⁴¹ Yea they turned backe and tempted God: and limited the holy one of Israel. ⁴² They remembred not his hand: nor the day when hee deliuered them from the enemie: ⁴³ How he had wrought his signes in Egypt: and his wonders in the field of Zoan: ⁴⁴ And had turned their riuers into blood: and their flouds, that they could not drinke. ⁴⁵ Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them. ⁴⁶ He gaue also their increase vnto the caterpiller: and their labour vnto the locust. ⁴⁷ He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost. ⁴⁸ He gaue vp their cattel also to the haile: and their flockes to hot thunder-bolts. ⁴⁹ He cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, wrath and indignation, and trouble: by sending euill angels among them. ⁵⁰ He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence. ⁵¹ And smote all the first borne in Egypt: the chiefe of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: ⁵² But made his owne people to goe forth like sheepe: and guided them in the wildernesse like a flocke. ⁵³ And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea ouerwhelmed their enemies. ⁵⁴ And he brought them to the border of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountaine which his right hand had purchased. ⁵⁵ He 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. ⁵⁶ Yet they tempted and prouoked the most high God: and kept not his testimonies: ⁵⁷ But turned backe, and dealt vnfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitfull bowe. ⁵⁸ For they prouoked him to anger with their high places: and moued him to ielousie with their grauen images. ⁵⁹ When God heard this, hee was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: ⁶⁰ So that he forsooke the tabernacle of Shiloh: the tent which he placed among men, ⁶¹ And deliuered his strength into captiuitie: and his glory into the enemies hand. ⁶² He gaue his people ouer also vnto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance. ⁶³ The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not giuen to mariage. ⁶⁴ Their priests fell by the sword: and their widowes made no lamentation. ⁶⁵ Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe: and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. ⁶⁶ And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetuall reproch. ⁶⁷ Moreouer he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Iudah: the mount Sion which he loued. ⁷⁰ And he built his sanctuarie like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for euer. ⁷¹ He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the sheepe-folds: ⁷² From following the ewes great with young, hee brought him to feed Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.