Psalms 78:9-67

9 The Ephraimites, armed with ▼

▼Hebrew  armed and shooting

the bow,
^bturned back on the day of battle.
10They ^cdid not keep God’s covenant,
but refused to walk according to his law.
11They ^dforgot his works
and ^ethe wonders that he had shown them.
12In the sight of their fathers ^fhe performed wonders
in the land of Egypt, in ^gthe fields of Zoan.
13He ^hdivided the sea and let them pass through it,
and made the waters ⁱstand like a heap.
14 ^jIn the daytime he led them with a cloud,
and all the night with a fiery light.
15He ^ksplit rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
16He made streams come out of ^lthe rock
and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
17 Yet they sinned still more against him,
^mrebelling against the Most High in the desert.
18They ⁿtested God in their heart
by demanding the food they craved.
19They spoke against God, saying,
^o“Can God ^pspread a table in the wilderness?
20 ^qHe struck the rock so that water gushed out
and streams overflowed.
Can he also give bread
or provide meat for his people?”
21 Therefore, when the Lord heard, he was full of wrath;
^ra fire was kindled against Jacob;
his anger rose against Israel,
22because they ^sdid not believe in God
and did not trust his saving power.
23Yet he commanded the skies above
and ^topened the doors of heaven,
24and he ^urained down on them manna to eat
and gave them ^vthe grain of heaven.
25Man ate of the bread of ^wthe angels;
he sent them food ^xin abundance.
26He ^ycaused the east wind to blow in the heavens,
and by his power he led out the south wind;
27he rained meat on them like ^zdust,
winged birds like ^aathe sand of the seas;
28he ^ablet them fall in the midst of their camp,
all around their dwellings.
29And they ^acate and were well filled,
for he gave them what they ^adcraved.
30But before they had satisfied their craving,
^aewhile the food was still in their mouths,
31the anger of God rose against them,
and he killed ^afthe strongest of them
and laid low ^agthe young men of Israel.
32 In spite of all this, they ^ahstill sinned;
^aidespite his wonders, they did not believe.
33So he made ^ajtheir days ^akvanish like ▼

▼Hebrew in

a breath, ▼

▼Or vapor

and their years in terror.
34When he killed them, they ^ansought him;
they repented and sought God earnestly.
35They remembered that God was their ^aorock,
the Most High God their ^apredeemer.
36But they ^aqflattered him with their mouths;
they ^arlied to him with their tongues.
37Their ^asheart was not ^atsteadfast toward him;
they were not faithful to his covenant.
38Yet he, being ^aucompassionate,
^avatoned for their iniquity
and did not destroy them;
he restrained his anger often
and did not stir up all his wrath.
39He ^awremembered that they were but ^axflesh,
^aya wind that passes and comes not again.
40How often they ^azrebelled against him in the wilderness
and ^bagrieved him in ^bbthe desert!
41They ^bctested God again and again
and provoked ^bdthe Holy One of Israel.
42They ^bedid not remember his power ▼

▼Hebrew hand

or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
43 ^bgwhen he performed his ^bhsigns in Egypt
and his ^bimarvels in ^bjthe fields of Zoan.
44He ^bkturned their rivers to blood,
so that they could not drink of their streams.
45He sent among them swarms of ^blflies, which devoured them,
and ^bmfrogs, which destroyed them.
46He gave their crops to ^bnthe destroying locust
and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
47He destroyed their vines with ^bohail
and their sycamores with frost.
48He gave over their ^bpcattle to the hail
and their flocks to thunderbolts.
49He let loose on them his burning anger,
wrath, indignation, and distress,
a company of ^bqdestroying angels.
50He made a path for his anger;
he did not spare them from death,
but gave their lives over to the plague.
51He struck down every ^brfirstborn in Egypt,
the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of ^bsHam.
52Then he led out his people ^btlike sheep
and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
53 ^buHe led them in safety, so that they ^bvwere not afraid,
but ^bwthe sea overwhelmed their enemies.
54And he brought them to his ^bxholy land,
^byto the mountain which his right hand had ^bzwon.
55He ^cadrove out nations before them;
he ^cbapportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 Yet they ^cctested and ^cdrebelled against the Most High God
and did not keep his testimonies,
57but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
they twisted like ^cea deceitful bow.
58For they ^cfprovoked him to anger with their ^cghigh places;
they ^chmoved him to jealousy with their ^ciidols.
59When God heard, he was full of ^cjwrath,
and he utterly rejected Israel.
60He ^ckforsook his dwelling at ^clShiloh,
the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
61and delivered his ^cmpower to captivity,
his ^cnglory to the hand of the foe.
62He ^cogave his people over to the sword
and ^cpvented his wrath on his heritage.
63 ^cqFire devoured their young men,
and their young women had no ^crmarriage song.
64Their ^cspriests fell by the sword,
and their ^ctwidows made no lamentation.
65Then the Lord ^cuawoke as from sleep,
like a strong man shouting because of wine.
66And he ^cvput his adversaries to rout;
he put them to everlasting shame.
67 He rejected the tent of ^cwJoseph;
he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,