Psalms 78:14-72
In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave[ them] drink as[ out of] the great depths.He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?Behold, 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?Therefore the LORD heard[ this], and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:And he let[ it] fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat[ was] yet in their mouths,The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen[ men] of Israel.For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.And they remembered that God[ was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer.Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.But 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.For he remembered that they[ were but] flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness,[ and] grieve him in the desert!Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.They remembered not his hand,[ nor] the day when he delivered them from the enemy.How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels[ among them].He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of[ their] strength in the tabernacles of Ham:But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary,[ even to] this mountain,[ which] his right hand had purchased.He 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.Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.When God heard[ this], he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent[ which] he placed among men;And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,[ and] like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.And he built his sanctuary like high[ palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
Psalms 106:12-48
Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.They envied Moses also in the camp,[ and] Aaron the saint of the LORD.The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;Wondrous works in the land of Ham,[ and] terrible things by the Red sea.Therefore 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].Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:But murmured in their tents,[ and] hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.Thus they provoked[ him] to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and[ so] the plague was stayed.And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.They angered[ him] also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,And 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.Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked[ him] with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.Save 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.Blessed[ be] the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.
