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| 78:1 | [Maschil of Asaph.] Giue eare, O my people, to my Lawe: incline your eares to the wordes of my mouth. |
| 78:2 | I will open my mouth in a parable: I wil vtter darke sayings of old: |
| 78:3 | Which we haue heard, & knowen: and our fathers haue told vs. |
| 78:4 | We 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. |
| 78:5 | For he established a Testimony in Iacob, and appointed a Law in Israel, which he commaunded our fathers: that they should make them knowen to their children. |
| 78:6 | That the generation to come might know them, euen the children which should be borne: who should arise and declare them to their children: |
| 78:7 | That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God: but keepe his Commandements, |
| 78:8 | And might not bee as their fathers, a stubborne and rebellious generation, a generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. |
| 78:9 | The children of Ephraim being armed, and carying bowes, turned backe in the day of battell. |
| 78:10 | They kept not the couenant of God: and refused to walke in his Law: |
| 78:11 | And forgat his workes: and his wonders that he had shewed them. |
| 78:12 | Marueilous things did he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. |
| 78:13 | Hee diuided the Sea, and caused them to passe through: and he made the waters to stand as an heape. |
| 78:14 | In the day time also he led them with a cloud: and all the night with a light of fire. |
| 78:15 | Hee claue the rockes in the wildernes: and gaue them drinke as out of the great depthes. |
| 78:16 | Hee brought streames also out of the rocke, and caused waters to runne downe like riuers. |
| 78:17 | And they sinned yet more against him: by prouoking the most High in the wildernes. |
| 78:18 | And they tempted God in their heart: by asking meat for their lust. |
| 78:19 | Yea, they spake against God: they said, Can God furnish a table in the wildernes? |
| 78:20 | Behold, he smote the rocke, that the waters gushed out, & the streames ouerflowed; can he giue bread also? Can he prouide flesh for his people? |
| 78:21 | Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth, so a fire was kindled against Iacob: and anger also came vp against Israel. |
| 78:22 | Because they beleeued not in God: and trusted not in his saluation: |
| 78:23 | Though he had commanded the cloudes from aboue: and opened the doores of heauen: |
| 78:24 | And had rained downe Manna vpon them to eate, and had giuen them of the corne of heauen. |
| 78:25 | Man did eate Angels food: hee sent them meat to the full. |
| 78:26 | He caused an East wind to blow in the heauen: and by his power hee brought in the South wind. |
| 78:27 | He rained flesh also vpon them as dust: and feathered soules like as the sand of the sea. |
| 78:28 | And hee let it fall in the midst of their campe, round about their habitations. |
| 78:29 | So they did eate, & were well filled: for he gaue them their owne desire. |
| 78:30 | They were not estranged from their lust: but while their meate was yet in their mouthes, |
| 78:31 | The wrath of God came vpon them, and slew the fattest of them: and smote downe the chosen men of Israel. |
| 78:32 | For all this they sinned still: and beleeued not for his wondrous works. |
| 78:33 | Therefore their dayes did he consume in vanitie, and their yeeres in trouble. |
| 78:34 | When hee slew them, then they sought him: and they returned, and inquired early after God. |
| 78:35 | And they remembred that God was their rocke: and the high God, their redeemer. |
| 78:36 | Neuerthelesse they did flatter him with their mouth: and they lyed vnto him with their tongues. |
| 78:37 | For their heart was not right with him: neither were they stedfast in his couenant. |
| 78:38 | But hee being full of compassion, forgaue their iniquity, and destroyed them not; yea many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stirre vp all his wrath. |
| 78:39 | For he remembred that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and commeth not againe. |
| 78:40 | How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernesse: and grieue him in the desert? |
| 78:41 | Yea they turned backe and tempted God: and limited the holy one of Israel. |
| 78:42 | They remembred not his hand: nor the day when hee deliuered them from the enemie: |
| 78:43 | How he had wrought his signes in Egypt: and his wonders in the field of Zoan: |
| 78:44 | And had turned their riuers into blood: and their flouds, that they could not drinke. |
| 78:45 | Hee sent diuers sorts of flies among them, which deuoured them: and frogges which destroyed them. |
| 78:46 | He gaue also their increase vnto the caterpiller: and their labour vnto the locust. |
| 78:47 | He destroyed their vines with haile: and their Sycomore trees with frost. |
| 78:48 | He gaue vp their cattel also to the haile: and their flockes to hot thunder-bolts. |
| 78:49 | He cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, wrath and indignation, and trouble: by sending euill angels among them. |
| 78:50 | He made a way to his anger, hee spared not their soule from death: but gaue their life ouer to the pestilence. |
| 78:51 | And smote all the first borne in Egypt: the chiefe of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: |
| 78:52 | But made his owne people to goe forth like sheepe: and guided them in the wildernesse like a flocke. |
| 78:53 | And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea ouerwhelmed their enemies. |
| 78:54 | And he brought them to the border of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountaine which his right hand had purchased. |
| 78:55 | He cast out the heathen also before them, and diuided them an inheritance by line: and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
| 78:56 | Yet they tempted and prouoked the most high God: and kept not his testimonies: |
| 78:57 | But turned backe, and dealt vnfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitfull bowe. |
| 78:58 | For they prouoked him to anger with their high places: and moued him to ielousie with their grauen images. |
| 78:59 | When God heard this, hee was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: |
| 78:60 | So that he forsooke the tabernacle of Shiloh: the tent which he placed among men, |
| 78:61 | And deliuered his strength into captiuitie: and his glory into the enemies hand. |
| 78:62 | He gaue his people ouer also vnto the sword: and was wroth with his inheritance. |
| 78:63 | The fire consumed their young men: and their maidens were not giuen to mariage. |
| 78:64 | Their priests fell by the sword: and their widowes made no lamentation. |
| 78:65 | Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe: and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. |
| 78:66 | And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetuall reproch. |
| 78:67 | Moreouer he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim. |
| 78:68 | But chose the tribe of Iudah: the mount Sion which he loued. |
| 78:69 | And he built his sanctuarie like high palaces: like the earth which he hath established for euer. |
| 78:70 | He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the sheepe-folds: |
| 78:71 | From following the ewes great with young, hee brought him to feed Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
| 78:72 | So he fed them according to the integritie of his heart: and guided them by the skilfulnesse of his hands. |
| 78:1 | Heare my lawe O my people: enclyne your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth |
| 78:2 | I wyll open my mouth in a parable: I wyll declare harde sentences of the olde tyme past |
| 78:3 | Which we haue hearde and knowen: and such as our fathers haue tolde vs |
| 78:4 | We wyll not hyde them from their children: nay we wyll set foorth in wordes to the generation to come, the prayses of God, and his myght and wonderfull workes that he hath done |
| 78:5 | For he reuiued a statute in Iacob, and gaue Israel a lawe: in the whiche he commaunded our forefathers to teache their children |
| 78:6 | To the intent the posteritie shoulde knowe it, and children whiche shalbe borne: that they shoulde ryse vp and declare it to their children |
| 78:7 | That they shoulde put their trust in God, and not forget the workes of God: but kepe his commaundementes |
| 78:8 | And that they be not as their forefathers were a rebellious and a mutable generation: a generation that directed not their heart aright, and whose spirite cleaued not stedfastly vnto God |
| 78:9 | Like as the children of Ephraim, which beyng harnessed & carying bowes: turned their backes in the day of battayle |
| 78:10 | They kept not the couenaunt of God: and they woulde not walke in his law |
| 78:11 | But they forgat his workes: and his wonders which he had shewed them |
| 78:12 | Marueylous thinges dyd he in the sight of their fathers: in the land of Egypt, in the fielde of Zoan |
| 78:13 | He deuided the sea and let them go thorowe: he made the waters to stande as on an heape |
| 78:14 | In the day time also he led them with a cloude: and all the night through with a light of fire |
| 78:15 | He cloued the harde rockes in the wildernes: & gaue them drinke therof, as it had ben out of the great deepe waters |
| 78:16 | He brought running streames out of a stonie rocke: and caused waters to gushe downe, like as out of riuers |
| 78:17 | Yet for all this they sinned still against hym: so that they prouoked the most hyghest in the wildernesse |
| 78:18 | And they temped god in their heartes: in requiring meate for their lust |
| 78:19 | They spake against God: they said, can God prepare a table in the wildernesse |
| 78:20 | Beholde, he hath smytten the stonie rocke, and waters haue gushed out, and streames haue flowed out aboundantly: but can he likewise geue bread, can he prouide fleshe for his people |
| 78:21 | Wherefore God hearde them, he was wroth, a fire was kindled in Iacob: and there arose vp heauy displeasure against Israel |
| 78:22 | Because they beleued not in the Lord: nor did put their trust in his saluation |
| 78:23 | And yet he commaunded the cloudes aboue: and opened the doores of heauen |
| 78:24 | He raigned downe Manna also vpon them, that they shoulde eate: and gaue them corne from heauen |
| 78:25 | So man dyd eate the bread of angels: he sent them meate inough |
| 78:26 | He remoued the east winde from vnder the heauen: and through his power he brought in the south winde |
| 78:27 | He rained fleshe vpon them as thycke as dust: and fethered foules like as the sande of the sea |
| 78:28 | He let it fall among their tentes: euen rounde about their pauilions |
| 78:29 | So they dyd eate and were wel filled, for he gaue them their owne desire: neuerthelesse they were not alienated from their lust |
| 78:30 | But whyle the meate was yet in their mouthes, the heauy wrath of God came vpon them, and slue the welthyest of them: and made the chosen men of Israel to stoupe |
| 78:31 | For all this they sinned still: and beleued not his wonderous workes |
| 78:32 | Therfore their dayes dyd he consume in vanitie: & their yeres in a short troublous time |
| 78:33 | When he slue them, they sought hym: they repented them, and made God their morninges worke |
| 78:34 | And they remembred that the Lorde was their rocke: & that the Lorde most hyghest was their redeemer |
| 78:35 | Neuerthelesse they dyd but flatter him with their mouth: and they made hym a lye with their tongue |
| 78:36 | For their heart was not vpright with him: neither continued they faythfull in his couenaunt |
| 78:37 | Yet for all that he beyng most merciful: cleane pardoned all their misdeedes, and destroyed them not |
| 78:38 | Yea many a tyme he dyd much for to represse his anger: and neuer woulde suffer his whole rage to breake out |
| 78:39 | For he considered that they were but fleshe, and that they were euen a winde that passeth away & cometh not againe |
| 78:40 | How oft dyd they prouoke hym in the wildernes: & greeued hym in the desert |
| 78:41 | They turned backe and tempted the Lorde: and prescribed boundes to the most holy God of Israel |
| 78:42 | They thought not of his hande: in the day when he redeemed them from the enemie |
| 78:43 | Howe he had wrought his miracles in Egypt: and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan |
| 78:44 | For he turned into blood their riuers & fluddes: so that they might not drinke |
| 78:45 | He sent amongst them all kind of flyes who dyd eate them: and frogges who destroyed them |
| 78:46 | He gaue their fruites vnto the caterpiller: & their labour to the grashopper |
| 78:47 | He destroyed their vines with hayle stones: and their wilde figge trees with the harde frost |
| 78:48 | He smote their cattell also with haylestones: and their flockes with thunder boltes |
| 78:49 | He cast vpon them the rage of his furie, anger, disdayne, and trouble: by sending foorth euill angels amongst them |
| 78:50 | He made away to his indignation, & spared not their soule from death: he gaue their lyfe to be subiect to the pestilence |
| 78:51 | And he smote all the first borne of Egypt: the first fruites of concupiscence in the pauilions of Cham |
| 78:52 | But as for his owne people, he led them foorth like sheepe: and conducted them through the wildernesse like a flocke of cattell |
| 78:53 | He brought them out safely that they shoulde not feare: and ouerwhelmed their enemies with the sea |
| 78:54 | And brought them within the borders of his sanctuarie: euen to this mountayne which his right hand purchased |
| 78:55 | He dyd cast out the heathen also before them: he caused their land to be deuided among the for an heritage, & made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tentes |
| 78:56 | Neuerthelesse, they tempted and displeased the most hyghest Lorde: & kept not his testimonies |
| 78:57 | They turned backewarde, and they went astray like their forefathers: they started aside like a bowe that breaketh |
| 78:58 | For they stirred hym to anger with their hygh places: and prouoked him to ielousie with their carued images |
| 78:59 | When the Lorde hearde this, he was wroth: & toke sore displeasure at Israel |
| 78:60 | So that he forsoke the tabernacle in Silo: the pauilion wherin he dwelt amongst men |
| 78:61 | He deliuered his force into captiuitie: and his glorie into the enemies hande |
| 78:62 | He gaue also his people ouer to the sword: and was wroth with his inheritaunce |
| 78:63 | Fire consumed his young men: and his maydens were not maryed |
| 78:64 | His priestes were slayne with the sworde: and his wydowes made no lamentation |
| 78:65 | But the Lorde awaked as though he had slept: like a giaunt making a triumphant noyse after wine |
| 78:66 | He smote his enemies in the hynder parts: & put them to a perpetual shame |
| 78:67 | He refused the tabernacle of Ioseph: and chose not the tribe of Ephraim |
| 78:68 | But he chose the tribe of Iuda: euen the hill of Sion which he loued |
| 78:69 | And there he buylded his temple on high: and layde the foundation of it like a grounde euer to continue |
| 78:70 | He chose also Dauid his seruaunt: and toke hym away from the sheepefoldes |
| 78:71 | As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce |
| 78:72 | So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart: and guided them by the discretion of his handes |
| 78:1 | A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth. |
| 78:2 | I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde. |
| 78:3 | Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs. |
| 78:4 | Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done: |
| 78:5 | How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children: |
| 78:6 | That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children: |
| 78:7 | That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements: |
| 78:8 | And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God. |
| 78:9 | The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell. |
| 78:10 | They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe, |
| 78:11 | And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them. |
| 78:12 | Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan. |
| 78:13 | He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape. |
| 78:14 | In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire. |
| 78:15 | He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths. |
| 78:16 | He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers. |
| 78:17 | Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse, |
| 78:18 | And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust. |
| 78:19 | They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse? |
| 78:20 | Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people? |
| 78:21 | Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel, |
| 78:22 | Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe. |
| 78:23 | Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen, |
| 78:24 | And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen. |
| 78:25 | Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough. |
| 78:26 | He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde. |
| 78:27 | Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea. |
| 78:28 | And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations. |
| 78:29 | So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire. |
| 78:30 | They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes, |
| 78:31 | When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel. |
| 78:32 | For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes. |
| 78:33 | Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily. |
| 78:34 | And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely. |
| 78:35 | And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer. |
| 78:36 | But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue. |
| 78:37 | For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant. |
| 78:38 | Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath. |
| 78:39 | For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe. |
| 78:40 | How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert? |
| 78:41 | Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel. |
| 78:42 | They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie, |
| 78:43 | Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan, |
| 78:44 | And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke. |
| 78:45 | Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them. |
| 78:46 | He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper. |
| 78:47 | He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone. |
| 78:48 | He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes. |
| 78:49 | Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels. |
| 78:50 | He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence, |
| 78:51 | And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham. |
| 78:52 | But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke. |
| 78:53 | Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies. |
| 78:54 | And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased. |
| 78:55 | He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles. |
| 78:56 | Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies, |
| 78:57 | But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe. |
| 78:58 | And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images. |
| 78:59 | God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel, |
| 78:60 | So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men, |
| 78:61 | And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand. |
| 78:62 | And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance. |
| 78:63 | The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised. |
| 78:64 | Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not. |
| 78:65 | But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out, |
| 78:66 | And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame. |
| 78:67 | Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim: |
| 78:68 | But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued. |
| 78:69 | And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer. |
| 78:70 | He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds. |
| 78:71 | Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel. |
| 78:72 | So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands. |
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