Psalms 78

1A contemplation by Asaph. Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.Cross-references: Judg 5:3 · 2Chr 15:1 · Ps 49:1 · Ps 50:7 · Ps 51:4 · Ps 74:1 · +4 more

2I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,Cross-references: Ps 49:4 · Prov 1:6 · Matt 13:11 · Matt 13:34 · Mark 4:34

3which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.Cross-references: Ex 12:26 · Ex 13:8 · Ex 13:14 · Ps 44:1 · Ps 48:8

4We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous deeds that he has done.Cross-references: Ex 12:26 · Ex 13:8 · Ex 13:14 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 6:7 · Deut 11:19 · +10 more

5For he established a covenant in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;Cross-references: Gen 18:19 · Ex 25:16 · Ex 25:21 · Ex 40:3 · Ex 40:20 · Deut 4:45 · +12 more

6that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,Cross-references: Deut 4:10 · Josh 22:24 · Esth 9:28 · Ps 22:31 · Ps 48:13 · Ps 71:18 · +4 more

7that they might set their hope in God, and not forget God’s deeds, but keep his commandments,Cross-references: Ex 12:24 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 5:29 · Deut 6:12 · Deut 7:18 · Deut 8:2 · +17 more

8and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.Cross-references: Ex 32:9 · Ex 33:3 · Ex 33:5 · Ex 34:9 · Deut 4:4 · Deut 9:6 · +21 more

9The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.Cross-references: Deut 1:41 · Josh 17:16 · Judg 9:28 · Judg 9:38 · Judg 20:39 · 1Sam 4:10 · +4 more

10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.Cross-references: Deut 31:16 · Deut 31:20 · Judg 2:10 · 2Ki 17:14 · Neh 9:26 · Jer 31:32

11They forgot his doings, his wondrous deeds that he had shown them.Cross-references: Deut 32:18 · Ps 78:7 · Ps 106:13 · Ps 106:21 · Jer 2:32

12He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.Cross-references: Gen 32:3 · Ex 7:1 · Num 13:22 · Deut 4:34 · Deut 6:22 · Neh 9:10 · +7 more

13He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.Cross-references: Ex 14:1 · Ex 14:21 · Ex 15:8 · Josh 3:16 · Ps 38:7 · Ps 66:6 · +5 more

14In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Ex 14:24 · Ex 40:35 · Neh 9:12 · Neh 9:19 · Ps 105:39

15He split rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.Cross-references: Ex 17:6 · Num 20:11 · Ps 105:41 · Ps 114:8 · Isa 41:18 · Isa 43:20 · +5 more

16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.Cross-references: Num 20:8 · Num 20:10 · Deut 8:15 · Deut 9:21 · Ps 105:41

17Yet they still went on to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.Cross-references: Deut 9:8 · Deut 9:12 · Ps 78:32 · Ps 95:8 · Ps 106:13 · Isa 63:10 · +1 more

18They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.Cross-references: Ex 16:2 · Num 11:4 · Deut 6:16 · Ps 95:9 · Ps 106:14 · 1Cor 10:6 · +2 more

19Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?Cross-references: Ex 16:3 · Ex 16:8 · Num 11:4 · Num 11:13 · Num 20:3 · Num 21:5 · +5 more

20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”Cross-references: Gen 18:12 · Ex 17:6 · Num 11:18 · Num 11:21 · Num 20:11 · Ps 78:41

21Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,Cross-references: Num 11:1 · Num 11:10 · Deut 32:22 · Ps 78:31 · 1Cor 10:5 · 1Cor 10:11 · +2 more

22because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.Cross-references: Deut 1:32 · Ps 106:24 · Isa 7:9 · Heb 3:12 · Heb 3:18 · Heb 11:6 · +2 more

23Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven.Cross-references: Gen 7:11 · 2Ki 7:2 · 2Ki 7:19 · Ps 33:9 · Isa 5:6 · Mal 3:10

24He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.Cross-references: Ex 16:4 · Ex 16:14 · Deut 8:3 · Neh 9:15 · Neh 9:20 · Ps 68:9 · +3 more

25Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.Cross-references: Ex 16:8 · Ps 103:20 · Matt 14:20 · Matt 15:37

26He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.Cross-references: Num 11:31 · Ps 135:7

27He also rained meat on them as the dust, winged birds as the sand of the seas.Cross-references: Ex 16:12 · Num 11:18 · Num 11:32

28He let them fall in the middle of their camp, around their habitations.

29So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.Cross-references: Num 11:19 · Ps 106:15

30They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,Cross-references: Num 11:33 · Num 22:20 · Prov 1:32 · Luke 16:19

31when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of their strongest, and struck down the young men of Israel.Cross-references: Isa 10:16

32For all this they still sinned, and didn’t believe in his wondrous works.Cross-references: Num 14:1 · Num 16:1 · Num 21:1 · Num 25:1 · Ps 78:11 · Ps 78:22 · +3 more

33Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.Cross-references: Gen 3:16 · Num 14:29 · Num 14:35 · Num 26:64 · Deut 2:14 · Job 5:6 · +6 more

34When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.Cross-references: Num 21:7 · Judg 3:8 · Judg 3:12 · Judg 4:3 · Judg 10:7 · Isa 26:6 · +3 more

35They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.Cross-references: Ex 6:6 · Ex 15:13 · Deut 7:8 · Deut 9:26 · Deut 15:15 · Deut 32:4 · +13 more

36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.Cross-references: Deut 5:28 · Ps 18:44 · Ps 106:12 · Isa 29:13 · Isa 57:11 · Ezek 33:31 · +1 more

37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.Cross-references: Deut 31:20 · Ps 44:17 · Ps 51:10 · Ps 78:8 · Ps 119:80 · Hos 7:14 · +3 more

38But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.Cross-references: Ex 34:6 · Num 14:18 · Num 16:44 · 2Ki 21:20 · Ps 106:43 · Isa 44:21 · +5 more

39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.Cross-references: Gen 6:3 · Job 7:7 · Job 7:16 · Job 10:9 · Ps 103:14 · John 3:6 · +1 more

40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!Cross-references: Num 14:11 · Deut 9:21 · Ps 78:17 · Ps 95:8 · Ps 106:14 · Ps 107:11 · +4 more

41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.Cross-references: Num 14:4 · Num 14:22 · Deut 6:16 · 2Ki 19:22 · Ps 78:19 · Ps 89:18 · +4 more

42They didn’t remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;Cross-references: Ex 13:9 · Ex 14:12 · Ex 14:30 · Judg 8:34 · Ps 78:11 · Ps 78:21 · +4 more

43how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,Cross-references: Ex 3:19 · Ex 4:21 · Ex 7:3 · Deut 4:34 · Deut 6:22 · Neh 9:10 · +2 more

44he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.Cross-references: Ex 7:17 · Ps 105:29 · Rev 16:3

45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.Cross-references: Ex 8:2 · Ex 8:21 · Ps 105:30 · Rev 16:3

46He also gave their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.Cross-references: Ex 10:12 · Ps 105:34 · Joel 1:4 · Joel 2:25 · Amos 7:1 · Rev 9:2

47He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.Cross-references: Ex 9:18 · Ps 105:32

48He also gave over their livestock to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.Cross-references: Ex 9:19 · Ex 9:28

49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.Cross-references: Ex 12:13 · Ex 15:7 · 2Sam 24:16 · 1Ki 22:21 · Job 1:12 · Job 2:6 · +6 more

50He made a path for his anger. He didn’t spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,Cross-references: Ex 9:3 · Job 27:22 · Ezek 5:11 · Ezek 7:4 · Ezek 7:9 · Ezek 8:18 · +3 more

51and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.Cross-references: Gen 9:22 · Gen 10:6 · Gen 49:3 · Ex 12:12 · Ex 12:29 · Ex 13:15 · +7 more

52But he led out his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.Cross-references: Neh 9:12 · Ps 77:20 · Ps 95:7 · Ps 100:3 · Ps 105:37 · Isa 40:11 · +5 more

53He led them safely, so that they weren’t afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.Cross-references: Ex 14:15 · Ex 14:19 · Ex 14:27 · Ex 15:10 · Ps 136:15 · Heb 11:29

54He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.Cross-references: Ex 15:13 · Ex 15:17 · Ps 44:3 · Ps 68:16 · Isa 11:9 · Dan 9:16 · +2 more

55He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.Cross-references: Num 33:54 · Deut 6:10 · Josh 6:1 · Josh 13:7 · Josh 19:51 · Josh 23:4 · +5 more

56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn’t keep his testimonies,Cross-references: Deut 31:16 · Deut 32:15 · Judg 2:11 · 2Ki 17:7 · Neh 9:25 · Ps 78:40 · +1 more

57but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.Cross-references: Judg 3:5 · Judg 3:12 · Ps 78:8 · Ps 78:10 · Ps 78:41 · Ezek 20:27 · +1 more

58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.Cross-references: Ex 20:4 · Ex 34:14 · Lev 26:30 · Num 33:52 · Deut 4:16 · Deut 12:2 · +18 more

59When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel,Cross-references: Gen 18:20 · Lev 20:23 · Lev 26:44 · Deut 32:19 · Ps 11:4 · Ps 14:2 · +3 more

60so that he abandoned the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men,Cross-references: Josh 18:1 · 1Sam 1:3 · 1Sam 4:4 · Jer 7:12 · Jer 26:6

61and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary’s hand.Cross-references: Ex 40:34 · Judg 18:30 · 1Sam 4:17 · 1Sam 4:21 · 2Chr 6:41 · Ps 24:7 · +2 more

62He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.Cross-references: 1Sam 4:2 · 1Sam 4:10 · Ps 89:38 · Isa 64:9

63Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.Cross-references: Num 11:1 · Deut 29:20 · Deut 32:22 · Ps 78:21 · Isa 4:1 · Jer 7:34 · +2 more

64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:33 · 1Sam 4:11 · 1Sam 4:17 · 1Sam 4:19 · 1Sam 22:18 · Job 27:15 · +1 more

65Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.Cross-references: Ps 7:6 · Ps 44:23 · Ps 73:20 · Isa 42:13 · Isa 51:9

66He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.Cross-references: 1Sam 5:6 · 1Sam 6:4 · Job 40:12 · Jer 23:40

67Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn’t choose the tribe of Ephraim,Cross-references: 1Sam 6:21 · 2Sam 6:2 · 2Sam 6:17

68But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.Cross-references: Gen 49:8 · Ruth 4:17 · 1Sam 16:1 · 2Chr 6:6 · Ps 87:2 · Ps 132:12

69He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:8 · 1Ki 6:1 · 1Ki 9:8 · 1Chr 29:1 · 1Chr 29:19 · 2Chr 2:9 · +9 more

70He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;Cross-references: Ex 3:1 · Ex 3:10 · 1Sam 16:11 · 1Sam 17:15 · 2Sam 3:18 · 2Sam 6:21 · +6 more

71from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.Cross-references: Gen 33:13 · 1Sam 2:7 · 1Sam 10:1 · 2Sam 5:2 · 2Sam 7:8 · 1Chr 11:2 · +11 more

72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:15 · 1Ki 3:6 · 1Ki 3:28 · 1Ki 9:4 · 1Ki 15:5 · Ps 75:2 · +8 more