Psalm 78 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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

Psa 78:1A [fn]Maskil of Asaph.
Listen, O my people, to my [fn]instruction;
Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

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

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

Psa 78:4We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the LORD,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has 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 [fn]teach them to their children,

Psa 78:6

Psa 78:6That the generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born,
That they may arise and tell them to their children,

Psa 78:7

Psa 78:7That they should put their confidence in God
And not forget the works of God,
But keep His commandments,

Psa 78:8

Psa 78:8And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not [fn]prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

Psa 78:9

Psa 78:9The sons of Ephraim [fn]were archers equipped with bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

Psa 78:10

Psa 78:10They did not keep the covenant of God
And refused to walk in His law;

Psa 78:11

Psa 78:11They forgot His deeds
And His [fn]miracles that He had shown them.

Psa 78:12

Psa 78:12He wrought wonders before their fathers
In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Psa 78:13

Psa 78:13He divided the sea and caused them to pass through,
And He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Psa 78:14

Psa 78:14Then He led them with the cloud by day
And all the night with a light of fire.

Psa 78:15

Psa 78:15He split the rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

Psa 78:16

Psa 78:16He brought forth streams also from the rock
And caused waters to run down like rivers.

Psa 78:17

Psa 78:17Yet they still continued to sin against Him,
To rebel against the Most High in the desert.

Psa 78:18

Psa 78:18And in their heart they put God to the test
By asking food according to their desire.

Psa 78:19

Psa 78:19Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

Psa 78:20

Psa 78:20“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out,
And streams were overflowing;
Can He give bread also?
Will He provide [fn]meat for His people?”

Psa 78:21

Psa 78:21Therefore the LORD heard and [fn]was full of wrath;
And a fire was kindled against Jacob
And anger also mounted against Israel,

Psa 78:22

Psa 78:22Because they did not believe in God
And did not trust in His salvation.

Psa 78:23

Psa 78:23Yet He commanded the clouds above
And opened the doors of heaven;

Psa 78:24

Psa 78:24He rained down manna upon them to eat
And gave them [fn]food from heaven.

Psa 78:25

Psa 78:25Man did eat the bread of [fn]angels;
He sent them [fn]food [fn]in abundance.

Psa 78:26

Psa 78:26He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens
And by His [fn]power He directed the south wind.

Psa 78:27

Psa 78:27When He rained [fn]meat upon them like the dust,
Even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,

Psa 78:28

Psa 78:28Then He let them fall in the midst of [fn]their camp,
Round about their dwellings.

Psa 78:29

Psa 78:29So they ate and were well filled,
And their desire He gave to them.

Psa 78:30

Psa 78:30 [fn]Before they had satisfied their desire,
While their food was in their mouths,

Psa 78:31

Psa 78:31The anger of God rose against them
And killed [fn]some of their stoutest ones,
And [fn]subdued the choice men of Israel.

Psa 78:32

Psa 78:32In spite of all this they still sinned
And did not believe in His wonderful works.

Psa 78:33

Psa 78:33So He brought their days to an end in [fn]futility
And their years in sudden terror.

Psa 78:34

Psa 78:34When He killed them, then they sought Him,
And returned and searched diligently for God;

Psa 78:35

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

Psa 78:36

Psa 78:36But they deceived Him with their mouth
And lied to Him with their tongue.

Psa 78:37

Psa 78:37For their heart was not steadfast toward Him,
Nor were they faithful in His covenant.

Psa 78:38

Psa 78:38But He, being compassionate, [fn]forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them;
And often He [fn]restrained His anger
And did not arouse all His wrath.

Psa 78:39

Psa 78:39Thus He remembered that they were but flesh,
A [fn]wind that passes and does not return.

Psa 78:40

Psa 78:40How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!

Psa 78:41

Psa 78:41Again and again they [fn]tempted God,
And pained the Holy One of Israel.

Psa 78:42

Psa 78:42They did not remember His [fn]power,
The day when He redeemed them from the adversary,

Psa 78:43

Psa 78:43When He performed His signs in Egypt
And His marvels in the field of Zoan,

Psa 78:44

Psa 78:44And turned their rivers to blood,
And their streams, they could not drink.

Psa 78:45

Psa 78:45He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them,
And frogs which destroyed them.

Psa 78:46

Psa 78:46He gave also their crops to the grasshopper
And the product of their labor to the locust.

Psa 78:47

Psa 78:47He [fn]destroyed their vines with hailstones
And their sycamore trees with frost.

Psa 78:48

Psa 78:48He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones
And their herds to bolts of lightning.

Psa 78:49

Psa 78:49He sent upon them His burning anger,
Fury and indignation and trouble,
[fn]A band of destroying angels.

Psa 78:50

Psa 78:50He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave over their life to the plague,

Psa 78:51

Psa 78:51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham.

Psa 78:52

Psa 78:52But He led forth His own people like sheep
And guided them in the wilderness like a flock;

Psa 78:53

Psa 78:53He led them safely, so that they did not fear;
But the sea engulfed their enemies.

Psa 78:54

Psa 78:54So He brought them to His holy [fn]land,
To this [fn]hill country which His right hand had gained.

Psa 78:55

Psa 78:55He also drove out the nations before them
And apportioned them for an inheritance by measurement,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.

Psa 78:56

Psa 78:56Yet they [fn]tempted and rebelled against the Most High God
And did not keep His testimonies,

Psa 78:57

Psa 78:57But turned back and acted treacherously like their fathers;
They turned aside like a treacherous bow.

Psa 78:58

Psa 78:58For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

Psa 78:59

Psa 78:59When God heard, He [fn]was filled with wrath
And greatly abhorred Israel;

Psa 78:60

Psa 78:60So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent [fn]which He had pitched among men,

Psa 78:61

Psa 78:61And gave up His strength to captivity
And His glory into the hand of the adversary.

Psa 78:62

Psa 78:62He also delivered His people to the sword,
And [fn]was filled with wrath at His inheritance.

Psa 78:63

Psa 78:63Fire devoured [fn]His young men,
And [fn]His virgins had no wedding songs.

Psa 78:64

Psa 78:64 [fn]His priests fell by the sword,
And [fn]His widows could not weep.

Psa 78:65

Psa 78:65Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep,
Like a warrior [fn]overcome by wine.

Psa 78:66

Psa 78:66He [fn]drove His adversaries backward;
He put on them an everlasting reproach.

Psa 78:67

Psa 78:67He also rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,

Psa 78:68

Psa 78:68But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loved.

Psa 78:69

Psa 78:69And He built His sanctuary like the heights,
Like the earth which He has founded forever.

Psa 78:70

Psa 78:70He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;

Psa 78:71

Psa 78:71From [fn]the care of the [fn]ewes with suckling lambs He brought him
To shepherd Jacob His people,
And Israel His inheritance.

Psa 78:72

Psa 78:72So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart,
And guided them with his skillful hands.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(78:1)

Possibly, Contemplative, or Didactic, or Skillful Psalm

(78:1)

Or, law, teaching

(78:5)

Literally: make them known

(78:8)

Or, put right

(78:9)

Or, being

(78:11)

Or, wonderful works

(78:20)

Literally: flesh

(78:21)

Or, became infuriated

(78:24)

Literally: grain

(78:25)

Literally: mighty ones

(78:25)

Or, provision

(78:25)

Literally: to satiation

Or, strength

Literally: flesh

Literally: His

Literally: They were not estranged from

(78:31)

Literally: among their fat ones

(78:31)

Literally: caused to bow down

(78:33)

Literally: vanity, a mere breath

(78:38)

Literally: covered over, atoned for

(78:38)

Literally: turned away

(78:39)

Or, breath

(78:41)

Or, put God to the test

(78:42)

Literally: hand

(78:47)

Literally: was killing

(78:49)

Literally: A deputation of angels of evil

(78:54)

Literally: border, territory

(78:54)

Or, mountain

(78:56)

Or, put to the test

(78:59)

Or, became infuriated

(78:60)

Some ancient versions read where He dwelt

(78:62)

Or, became infuriated

(78:63)

Or, their

(78:64)

Or, their

(78:65)

Or, sobered up from

(78:66)

Literally: smote

(78:71)

Literally: following

(78:71)

Literally: ewes which gave suck, He...

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