78:1Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

78:2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

78:3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

78:4We 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.

78:5For 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:

78:6That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

78:7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

78:8And 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.

78:9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

78:10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

78:11And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

78:12Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

78:13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap.

78:14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

78:15He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

78:16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

78:17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.

78:18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.

78:19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

78:20Behold, 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?

78:21Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;

78:22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:

78:23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,

78:24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.

78:25Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

78:26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.

78:27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:

78:28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.

78:29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;

78:30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,

78:31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

78:32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.

78:33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

78:34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.

78:35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.

78:36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

78:37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

78:38But 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.

78:39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.

78:40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!

78:41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

78:42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.

78:43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

78:44And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

78:45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

78:46He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.

78:47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

78:48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

78:49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

78:50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

78:51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

78:52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

78:53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

78:54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.

78:55He 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.

78:56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:

78:57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

78:58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

78:59When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

78:60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

78:61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

78:62He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

78:63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.

78:64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

78:65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

78:66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

78:67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

78:68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

78:69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever.

78:70He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

78:71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

78:72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

105:1O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.

105:2Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

105:3Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.

105:4Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

105:5Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

105:6O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.

105:7He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.

105:8He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

105:9Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

105:10And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:

105:11Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:

105:12When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

105:13When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

105:14He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

105:15Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

105:16Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

105:17He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

105:18Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

105:19Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

105:20The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

105:21He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

105:22To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.

105:23Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

105:24And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.

105:25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

105:26He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.

105:27They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

105:28He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

105:29He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

105:30Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.

105:31He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.

105:32He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.

105:33He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.

105:34He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

105:35And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.

105:36He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

105:37He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.

105:38Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.

105:39He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

105:40The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

105:41He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

105:42For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

105:43And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:

105:44And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;

105:45That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

106:1Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

106:2Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?

106:3Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.

106:4Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;

106:5That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.

106:6We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.

106:7Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.

106:8Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.

106:9He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.

106:10And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.

106:11And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.

106:12Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.

106:13They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:

106:14But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

106:15And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.

106:16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.

106:17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

106:18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.

106:19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.

106:20Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

106:21They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

106:22Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.

106:23Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

106:24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:

106:25But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.

106:26Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:

106:27To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.

106:28They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

106:29Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

106:30Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.

106:31And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.

106:32They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:

106:33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.

106:34They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:

106:35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.

106:36And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

106:37Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,

106:38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

106:39Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

106:40Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

106:41And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.

106:42Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

106:43Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

106:44Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:

106:45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

106:46He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

106:47Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

106:48Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.