781An instruction. Of Asaph. Give 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 riddles from of old,+3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us:+4We will not hide [them] from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which 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], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,+7And that they might set their hope inGod, and not forget the works ofGod, but observe his commandments;+8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast withGod.+9The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.+10They kept not the covenant ofGod, and refused to walk in his law;+11And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.+12In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.+13He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;+14And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.+15He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;+16And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.+17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;+18And they temptedGod in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;+19And they spoke againstGod: they said, IsGod able to prepare a table in the wilderness?+20Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?+21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:+22Because they believed not inGod, and confided not in his salvation;+23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens,+24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens.+25Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.+26He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;+27And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,+28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations:+29And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.+30They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,+31When the anger ofGod went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.+32For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;+33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.+34When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early afterGod;+35And they remembered thatGod was their rock, andGod, the Most High, their redeemer.+36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;+37For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.+38But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed [them] not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:+39And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.+40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!+41And they turned again and temptedGod, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.+42They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,+43How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;+44And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;+45He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;+46And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;+47He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;+48And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.+49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, — a mission of angels of woes.+50He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;+51And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.+52And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;+53And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.+54And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;+55And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.+56But they tempted and provokedGod, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,+57And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.+58And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.+59God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:+60And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,+61And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;+62And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:+63The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;+64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.+65Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;+66And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.+67And he rejected 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 founded for ever.+70And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:+71From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.+72And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.+
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