Psalms Chapter 78 — God’s Faithfulness and Israel’s History

¹Hear my teaching, my people.

²I will open my mouth in a parable.

³which we have heard and known,

⁴We will not hide them from their children,

⁵For he established a covenant in Jacob,

⁶that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born;

⁷that they might set their hope in God,

⁸and might not be as their fathers—

⁹The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows,

¹⁰They didn’t keep God’s covenant,

¹¹They forgot his doings,

¹²He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers,

¹³He split the sea, and caused them to pass through.

¹⁴In the daytime he also led them with a cloud,

¹⁵He split rocks in the wilderness,

¹⁶He brought streams also out of the rock,

¹⁷Yet they still went on to sin against him,

¹⁸They tempted God in their heart

¹⁹Yes, they spoke against God.

²⁰Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out,

²¹Therefore the LORD heard, and was angry.

²²because they didn’t believe in God,

²³Yet he commanded the skies above,

²⁴He rained down manna on them to eat,

²⁵Man ate the bread of angels.

²⁶He caused the east wind to blow in the sky.

²⁷He also rained meat on them as the dust,

²⁸He let them fall in the middle of their camp,

²⁹So they ate, and were well filled.

³⁰They didn’t turn from their cravings.

³¹when the anger of God went up against them,

³²For all this they still sinned,

³³Therefore he consumed their days in vanity,

³⁴When he killed them, then they inquired after him.

³⁵They remembered that God was their rock,

³⁶But they flattered him with their mouth,

³⁷For their heart was not right with him,

³⁸But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them.

³⁹He remembered that they were but flesh,

⁴⁰How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness,

⁴¹They turned again and tempted God,

⁴²They didn’t remember his hand,

⁴³how he set his signs in Egypt,

⁴⁴he turned their rivers into blood,

⁴⁵He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them;

⁴⁶He also gave their increase to the caterpillar,

⁴⁷He destroyed their vines with hail,

⁴⁸He also gave over their livestock to the hail,

⁴⁹He threw on them the fierceness of his anger,

⁵⁰He made a path for his anger.