781Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.+2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,+3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.+4We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.+5For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;+6That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,+7That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,+8And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.+9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.+10They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;+11And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.+12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.+13He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.+14In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.+15He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.+16He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers.+17Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert.+18And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire.+19Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?+20Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?+21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;+22Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation.+23Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;+24And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven.+25Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full.+26He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind.+27He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:+28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations.+29So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire.+30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths,+31When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.+32For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works.+33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.+34When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly.+35And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.+36But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue.+37For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.+38But 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.+39And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.+40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!+41And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel.+42They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;+43How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan,+44And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.+45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them.+46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust.+47He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost.+48He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.+49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil.+50He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,+51And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.+52But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.+53And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies.+54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.+55He 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.+56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;+57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.+58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.+59When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;+60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;+61And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand.+62He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance.+63Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.+64Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.+65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.+66And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.+67Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim,+68But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.+69And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.+70He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:+71From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.+72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.+
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