Brenton(i)
1 (77:1) A Psalm of instruction for Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law: incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
2 (77:2) I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning.
3 (77:3) All which we have heard and known, and our fathers have declared to us.
4 (77:4) They were not hid from their children to a second generations; the fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, and his mighty acts, and his wonders which he wrought.
5 (77:5) And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make it known to their children:
6 (77:6) that another generation might know, even the sons which should be born; and they should arise and declare them to their children.
7 (77:7) That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the works of God, but diligently seek his commandments.
8 (77:8) That they should not be as their fathers, a perverse and provoking generation; a generation which set not its heart aright, and its spirit was not steadfast with God.
9 (77:9) The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle.
10 (77:10) They kept not the covenant of God, and would not walk in his law.
11 (77:11) And they forgot his benefits, and his miracles which he had shewed them;
12 (77:12) the miracles which he wrought before their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanes.
13 (77:13) He clave the sea, and led them through: he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.
14 (77:14) And he guided them with a cloud by day, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 (77:15) he clave a rock in the wilderness, and made them drink as in a great deep.
16 (77:16) And he brought water out of the rock, and caused waters to flow down as rivers.
17 (77:17) And they sinned yet more against him; they provoked the Most High in the wilderness.
18 (77:18) And they tempted God in their hearts, in asking meat for the desire of their souls.
19 (77:19) They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?
20 (77:20) Forasmuch as he smote the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will he be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for his people?
21 (77:21) Therefore the Lord heard, and was provoked: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath went up against Israel.
22 (77:22) Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.
23 (77:23) Yet he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,
24 (77:24) and rained upon them manna to eat, and gave them the bread of heaven.
25 (77:25) Man ate angels' bread; he sent them provision to the full.
26 (77:26) He removed the south wind from heaven; and by his might he brought in the south-west wind.
27 (77:27) And he rained upon them flesh like dust, and feathered birds like the sand of the seas.
28 (77:28) And they fell into the midst of their camp, round about their tents.
29 (77:29) So they ate, and were completely filled; and he gave them their desire.
30 (77:30) They were not disappointed of their desire: but when their food was yet in their mouth,
31 (77:31) then the indignation of God rose up against them, and slew the fattest of them, and overthrew the choice men of Israel.
32 (77:32) In the midst of all this they sinned yet more, and believed not his miracles.
33 (77:33) And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years with anxiety.
34 (77:34) When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned and called betimes upon God.
35 (77:35) And they remembered that God was their helper, and the most high God was their redeemer.
36 (77:36) Yet they loved him only with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.
37 (77:37) For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.
38 (77:38) But he is compassionate, and will forgive their sins, and will not destroy them: yea, he will frequently turn away his wrath, and will not kindle all his anger.
39 (77:39) And he remembered that they are flesh; a wind that passes away, and returns not.
40 (77:40) How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and anger him in a dry land!
41 (77:41) Yea, they turned back, and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
42 (77:42) They remembered not his hand, the day in which he delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.
43 (77:43) How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanes:
44 (77:44) and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink.
45 (77:45) He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them.
46 (77:46) And he gave their fruit to the canker worm, and their labours to the locust.
47 (77:47) He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamores with frost.
48 (77:48) And he gave up their cattle to hail, and their substance to the fire.
49 (77:49) He sent out against them the fury of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and affliction, a message by evil angels.
50 (77:50) He made a way for his wrath; he spared not their souls from death, but consigned their cattle to death;
51 (77:51) and smote every first-born in the land of Egypt; the first-fruits of their labours in the tents of Cham.
52 (77:52) And he removed his people like sheep; he led them as a flock in the wilderness.
53 (77:53) And he guided them with hope, and they feared not: but the sea covered their enemies.
54 (77:54) And he brought them in to the mountain of his sanctuary, this mountain which his right hand had purchased.
55 (77:55) And he cast out the nations from before them, and made them to inherit by a line of inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
56 (77:56) Ye they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies.
57 (77:57) And they turned back, and broke covenant, even as also their fathers: they became like a crooked bow.
58 (77:58) And they provoked him with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
59 (77:59) God heard and lightly regarded them, and greatly despised Israel.
60 (77:60) And he rejected the tabernacle of Selom, his tent where he dwelt among men.
61 (77:61) And he gave their strength into captivity, and their beauty into the enemy's hand.
62 (77:62) And he gave his people to the sword; and disdained his inheritance.
63 (77:63) Fire devoured their young men; and their virgins mourned not.
64 (77:64) Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows shall not be wept for.
65 (77:65) So the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and as a mighty man who has been heated with wine.
66 (77:66) And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he brought on them a perpetual reproach.
67 (77:67) And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim;
68 (77:68) but chose the tribe of Juda, the mount Sion which he loved.
69 (77:69) And he built his sanctuary as the place of unicorns; he founded it for ever on the earth.
70 (77:70) He chose David also his servant, and took him up from the flocks of sheep.
71 (77:71) He took him from following the ewes great with young, to be the shepherd of Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.
72 (77:72) So he tended them in the innocency of his heart; and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.