Psalms 78

PSALM 78

¹The learning of Asaph . My people, perceive ye my law; bow your ear into the words of my mouth.

²I shall open my mouth in parables; I shall speak perfect reasons [or propositions] from the beginning.

³How great things have we heard, and we have known those [or them] ; and our fathers told to us.

⁴Those [or They] be not hid from the sons of them; in another generation. And they told the praisings of the Lord, and the virtues of him; and his marvels, which he did.

⁵And he raised witnessing in Jacob; and he setted law in Israel. How great things commanded he to our fathers, to make those known to their sons;

⁶that another generation know. Sons, that shall be born, and shall rise up; shall tell out to their sons.

⁷That they set [or put] their hope in God, and forget not the works of God; and that they seek or search his commandments.

⁸Lest they be made a shrewd generation; and stirring to wrath, as the fathers of them. A generation that dressed not his heart; and his spirit was not believed with God.

⁹The sons of Ephraim, bending a bow, and sending arrows ; were turned in the day of battle.

¹⁰They kept not the testament of God; and they would not go in his law.

¹¹And they forgat his benificences [or benefits] ; and his marvels, which he showed to them.

¹²He did marvels before the fathers of them, in the land of Egypt; in the field of Tanis.

¹³He brake the sea, and led them through it ; and he ordained the waters as in a bouget [or bottle] .

¹⁴And he led them forth in a cloud of the day; and all night in the lightening of fire.

¹⁵He brake a stone in desert; and he gave water to them as in a much depth.

¹⁶And he led water out of the stone; and he led forth waters as floods.

¹⁷And they putted yet to do sin against him; they excited the high God into ire, in a place without water.

¹⁸And they tempted God in their hearts; that they asked meats to their lives.

¹⁹And they spake evil of God; they said, Whether God may make ready a board in desert?

²⁰For he smote a stone, and waters flowed; and streams went out in abundance. Whether also he may give bread; either make ready a board to his people?

²¹Therefore the Lord heard, and delayed; and fire was kindled in Jacob, and the ire of God ascended [or went up] on Israel.

²²For they believed not in God; neither hoped in his health.

²³And he commanded to the clouds above; and he opened the gates of heaven.

²⁴And he rained to them manna for to eat; and he gave to them bread of heaven.

²⁵Man ate the bread of angels; he sent to them meats in abundance.

²⁶He turned over the south wind from heaven; and he brought in by his virtue the west wind.

²⁷And he rained fleshes as dust on them; and also volatiles feathered, as the gravel of the sea.

²⁸And those felled in the midst of their castles [or they fell in the middle of the tents of them] ; about the taber-nacles of them.

²⁹And they ate, and were filled greatly, and he brought their desire to them;

³⁰they were not defrauded of their desire. Yet their meats were in their mouth;

³¹and the wrath of God ascended [or went up] on them. And he killed the fat men of them; and he hindered the chosen men of Israel.

³²In all these things they sinned yet; and believed not in the marvels of God.

³³And the days of them failed in vanity; and the years of them failed with haste.

³⁴When he killed them, they sought him; and they turned again, and early they came to him.

³⁵And they bethought, that God is the helper of them; and the high God is the again-buyer of them.

³⁶And they loved him in their mouth; and with their tongue they lied to him.

³⁷Forsooth the heart of them was not rightful [or right] with him; neither they were had faithful in his testament.

³⁸But he is merciful, and he shall be made merciful to the sins of them; and he shall not destroy them. And he did greatly, to turn away his ire; and he kindled not all his ire.

³⁹And he bethought, that they be flesh; a spirit going, and not turning again.

⁴⁰How oft made they him wroth in desert; they stirred him into ire in a place without water.

⁴¹And they were turned, and tempted God; and they wrathed the Holy of Israel.

⁴²They bethought not on his hand; in the day in which he again-bought them from the hand of the troubler.

⁴³As he setted [or put] his signs in Egypt; and his great wonders in the field of Tanis.

⁴⁴And he turned the floods of them, and the rains of them, into blood; that they should not drink.

⁴⁵He sent a flesh fly [or hound flea] into them, and it ate them; and he sent a paddock [or frog] , and it lost them.

⁴⁶And he gave the fruits of them to rust; and he gave the travails of them to locusts.

⁴⁷And he killed the vines of them with hail; and the sycamore trees of them with frost.

⁴⁸And he betook the beasts of them to hail; and the possessions of them to fire.

⁴⁹He sent into them the ire of his indignation; indignation, and ire, and tribulation, sendings-in by evil angels.

⁵⁰He made a way to the path of his ire, and he spared not from the death of their lives; and he enclosed alto-gether in death the beasts of them.

⁵¹And he smote all the first engen-dered things [or first begotten] in the land of Egypt; the first fruits of all the travail of them in the tabernacles of Ham.

⁵²And he took away his people as sheep; and he led them forth as a flock in desert.

⁵³And he led them forth in hope, and they dreaded not; and the sea covered the enemies of them.

⁵⁴And he brought them into the hill of his hallowing; into the hill which his right hand gat.

⁵⁵And he casted out heathen men from the face of them; and by lot he parted to them the land in a cord of dealing. And he made the lineages of Israel to dwell in the tabernacles of them.

⁵⁶And they tempted, and wrathed the high God; and they kept not his witnessings.

⁵⁷And they turned away themselves, and they kept not covenant; as their fathers they were turned into a shrewd bow.

⁵⁸They stirred him into ire in their little hills; and they stirred him to indignation in their graven images.

⁵⁹God heard, and forsook; and brought to nought Israel greatly.

⁶⁰And he putted [or put] away the tabernacle of Shiloh; his tabernacle in which he dwelled among men.

⁶¹And he betook the virtue of them into captivity; and the fairness of them into the hands of the enemy.

⁶²And he enclosed altogether his people in sword; and he despised his heritage.

⁶³Fire ate the young men of them; and the virgins of them were not bewailed or bewept.

⁶⁴The priests of them fell down by sword; and the widows of them were not bewept.

⁶⁵And the Lord was raised, as sleeping; as mighty greatly filled [or drunk] of wine.

⁶⁶And he smote his enemies on the hinder parts; he gave to them ever-lasting shame.

⁶⁷And he putted [or put] away the tabernacle of Joseph; and he chose not the lineage of Ephraim.

⁶⁸But he chose the lineage of Judah; he chose the hill of Zion, which he loved.

⁶⁹And he as an unicorn builded his holy place; in the land, which he founded into worlds.

⁷⁰And he chose David his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep;

⁷¹he took him from behind sheep with lambs. To feed Jacob his servant; and Israel his heritage.

⁷²And he fed them in the inno-cence of his heart; and he led them forth in the understandings of his hands.