Psalm 78 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

God's Guidance of His People in Spite of Their Unfaithfulness.

Psa 78:1{An instruction. Of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psa 78:2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old,

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

Psa 78:4We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done.

Psa 78:5

Psa 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;

Psa 78:6

Psa 78:6That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children,

Psa 78:7

Psa 78:7And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but observe his commandments;

Psa 78:8

Psa 78:8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Psa 78:9

Psa 78:9The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle.

Psa 78:10

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

Psa 78:11

Psa 78:11And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them.

Psa 78:12

Psa 78:12In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan.

Psa 78:13

Psa 78:13He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap;

Psa 78:14

Psa 78:14And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire.

Psa 78:15

Psa 78:15He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly;

Psa 78:16

Psa 78:16And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psa 78:17

Psa 78:17Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert;

Psa 78:18

Psa 78:18And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

Psa 78:19

Psa 78:19And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psa 78:20

Psa 78:20Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people?

Psa 78:21

Psa 78:21Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel:

Psa 78:22

Psa 78:22Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation;

Psa 78:23

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

Psa 78:24

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

Psa 78:25

Psa 78:25Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full.

Psa 78:26

Psa 78:26He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind;

Psa 78:27

Psa 78:27And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas,

Psa 78:28

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

Psa 78:29

Psa 78:29And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them.

Psa 78:30

Psa 78:30They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths,

Psa 78:31

Psa 78:31When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.

Psa 78:32

Psa 78:32For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works;

Psa 78:33

Psa 78:33And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Psa 78:34

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

Psa 78:35

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

Psa 78:36

Psa 78:36But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue;

Psa 78:37

Psa 78:37For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.

Psa 78:38

Psa 78:38But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury:

Psa 78:39

Psa 78:39And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again.

Psa 78:40

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

Psa 78:41

Psa 78:41And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

Psa 78:42

Psa 78:42They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor,

Psa 78:43

Psa 78:43How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan;

Psa 78:44

Psa 78:44And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;

Psa 78:45

Psa 78:45He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them;

Psa 78:46

Psa 78:46And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust;

Psa 78:47

Psa 78:47He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones;

Psa 78:48

Psa 78:48And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts.

Psa 78:49

Psa 78:49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, -- a mission of angels of woes.

Psa 78:50

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

Psa 78:51

Psa 78:51And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham.

Psa 78:52

Psa 78:52And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

Psa 78:53

Psa 78:53And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies.

Psa 78:54

Psa 78:54And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased;

Psa 78:55

Psa 78:55And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Psa 78:56

Psa 78:56But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,

Psa 78:57

Psa 78:57And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow.

Psa 78:58

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

Psa 78:59

Psa 78:59God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:

Psa 78:60

Psa 78:60And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men,

Psa 78:61

Psa 78:61And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor;

Psa 78:62

Psa 78:62And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance:

Psa 78:63

Psa 78:63The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song;

Psa 78:64

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

Psa 78:65

Psa 78:65Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine;

Psa 78:66

Psa 78:66And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach.

Psa 78:67

Psa 78:67And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim,

Psa 78:68

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

Psa 78:69

Psa 78:69And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever.

Psa 78:70

Psa 78:70And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:

Psa 78:71

Psa 78:71From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

Psa 78:72

Psa 78:72And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Psalm 78 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

God's Guidance of His People in Spite of Their Unfaithfulness.

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