Psalms 77

¹Understanding to Asaph. My people attend ye to my law: incline your ear unto the words of my mouth.

²I will open my mouth in parables: I will speak propositions from the beginning.

³How great things have we heard and have known them, and our fathers have told us.

⁴They were not hid from their children, in another generation. Telling the praises of our Lord, and his powers, and his marvelous works which he hath done.

⁵And he raised up a testimony in Jacob: and made a law in Israel. How great things he commanded our fathers, to make the same known to their children:

⁶that another generation may know. The children that shall be born, and shall rise up, and shall tell their children.

⁷That they may put their hope in God, and may not forget the works of God: and may seek after his commandments.

⁸That they become not as their fathers: a perverse generation and exasperating. A generation, that hath not directed their heart, their spirit hath not been faithful towards God.

⁹The children of Ephrem bending, and shooting with bow: were turned in the day of battle.

¹⁰They kept not the testament of God: and in his law they would not walk.

¹¹And they forgat his benefits, and his marvelous works, which he shewed them.

¹²Before their fathers he did marvelous things in the land of Ægypt, in the field of Tanis.

¹³He divided the sea & brought them through: and he made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

¹⁴And he conducted them in a cloud by day: and all the night by light of fire.

¹⁵He struck the rock in the desert: and gave them water to drink as in a great depth.

¹⁶And he brought forth water out of the rock: and made waters run down as rivers.

¹⁷And they added as yet to sin unto him: they provoked the Highest to wrath in the place without water.

¹⁸And they tempted God in their hearts: so that they asked meats for their lives.

¹⁹And they spake evil of God, they said: Can God prepare a table in the desert?

²⁰Because he struck the rock and waters ran, & torrents flowed: Can he also give bread, or prepare a table for his people?

²¹Therefore our Lord heard, and made delay: and fire was kindled in Jacob, and wrath ascended upon Israel.

²²Because they believed not in God, nor hoped in his salvation.

²³And he commanded the clouds from above, and opened the gates of heaven.

²⁴And he rained them Manna to eat, and bread of heaven he gave to them.

²⁵Bread of Angels did man eat: he sent them victuals in aboundance.

²⁶He transported the South-wind from heaven: and in his power he brought in the South-west-wind.

²⁷And he rained upon them flesh as dust: and as the sand of the sea feathered fowls.

²⁸And they fell in the midst of their camp: about their tabernacles.

²⁹And they did eat and were filled exceedingly, and their desire he brought to them:

³⁰They were not defrauded of their desire. As yet their meats were in their mouth:

³¹And the wrath of God ascended upon them. And he killed their fat ones, and the chosen of Israel he hindered.

³²In all these things they sinned as yet: and they believed not in his marvelous works.

³³And their days failed in vanity: and their years in haste.

³⁴When he slew them, they sought him: and they returned, and early they came to him.

³⁵And they remembered that God is their helper: and the high God is their redeemer.

³⁶And they loved him with their mouth, and with their tongue they did lie to him.

³⁷But their heart was not right with him: neither were they counted faithful in his testament.

³⁸But he is merciful, and will be propitious to their sins: and he will not destroy them. And he abounded to turn away his wrath: and he kindled not all his wrath.

³⁹And he remembered that they are flesh: spirit going, and not returning.

⁴⁰How often have they exasperated him in the desert: provoked him to wrath in the place without water.

⁴¹And they returned, and tempted God: and the holy one of Israel they exasperated.

⁴²They did not remember his hand: in the day that he redeemed them from the hand of the afflicter.

⁴³As he put his signs in Ægypt, and his wonders in the field of Tanis.

⁴⁴And he turned their rivers into blood, & their showers that they might not drink.

⁴⁵He sent upon them a swarm of flies, and it eat them: and the frog, and it destroyed them.

⁴⁶And he gave their fruits to the blast, and their labours to the locust.

⁴⁷And he killed their vineyards with hail: and their mulberry trees with hoar-frost.

⁴⁸And he delivered their beast to hail: and their possession to fire.

⁴⁹He sent upon them the wrath of his indignation: indignation, & wrath, and tribulation: immissions by evil angels.

⁵⁰He made a way to the path of his wrath, he spared not their lives from death: and their cattle he shut up in death.

⁵¹And he struck all the first-born in the land of Ægypt: the first fruits of all their labours in the tabernacles of Cham.

⁵²And he took away his people as sheep: and led them as a flock in the desert.

⁵³And he brought them forth in hope, and they feared not: and the sea covered their enemies.

⁵⁴And he brought them into the mount of his sanctification, the mount, which his right hand purchased. And he cast out the gentiles from their face: and by lot he divided the land of them in a cord of distribution:

⁵⁵And he made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.

⁵⁶And they tempted, and exasperated God the highest, and they kept not his testimonies.

⁵⁷And they turned away themselves, & kept not the covenant: even as their fathers, they were turned as a crooked bow.

⁵⁸They incensed him to wrath in their hills: and in their gravens they provoked him to emulation.

⁵⁹God heard, and contemned: and he brought Israel to nothing exceedingly.

⁶⁰And he rejected the tabernacle of Silo, his tabernacle, where he dwelt among men.

⁶¹And he delivered their force into captivity: and their beauty into the hands of the enemy.

⁶²And he shut up his people in the sword: and he despised his inheritance.

⁶³Fire devoured their young men: and their virgins were not lamented.

⁶⁴Their Priests fell by the sword: and their widows were not wept for.

⁶⁵And our Lord was raised up as one that sleepeth: as a mighty man having surfeited of wine.

⁶⁶And he struck his enemies on the hinder parts: an everlasting reproach he gave to them.

⁶⁷And he rejected the tabernacle of Joseph: and the tribe of Ephraim he chose not.

⁶⁸But he chose the tribe of Juda, mount Sion which he loved.

⁶⁹And he built his sanctuary as of unicorns in the land, which he hath founded for ever.

⁷⁰And he chose David his servant, and took him from the flocks of sheep: from after the ewes with young he took him.

⁷¹To feed Jacob his servant, and Israel his inheritance.

⁷²And he fed them in the innocency of his heart: and in the understandings of his hands he conducted them.