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, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful 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
which should be born;
who should arise and declare
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 forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.+12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt,
in the field of Zoan.+13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.+14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.+15He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave
them drink as
out of the great depths.+16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.+17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.+18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.+19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?+20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?+21Therefore the LORD heard
this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;+22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:+23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,+24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.+25Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.+26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.+27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:+28And he let
it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.+29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;+30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
was yet in their mouths,+31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen
men of Israel.+32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.+33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.+34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.+35And they remembered that God
was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.+36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.+37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.+38But he,
being full of compassion, forgave
their
iniquity, and destroyed
them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.+39For he remembered that they
were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.+40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,
and grieve him in the desert!+41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.+42They remembered not his hand,
nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.+43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:+44And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.+45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.+46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.+47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.+48He gave up 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, by sending evil angels
among them.+50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;+51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of
their
strength in the tabernacles of Ham:+52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.+53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.+54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,
even to
this mountain,
which his right hand had purchased.+55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.+56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:+57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully 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 enemy’s hand.+62He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.+63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.+64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.+65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,
and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.+66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.+67Moreover he refused the tabernacle 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 high
palaces, 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 great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.+72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.+
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