Psalms 77:1-17

¹A Psalm of instruction for Asaph. Give heed, O my people, to my law: Incline your ear to the words of my mouth.

²I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter dark sayings which have been from the beginning.

³All which we have heard and known, And our fathers have declared to us.

⁴They were not hidden from their children to a second generation; The fathers declaring the praises of the Lord, And his mighty acts, And his wonders which he wrought.

⁵And he raised up a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, To make it known to their children:

⁶That another generation might know, Even the sons which should be born; And they should arise and declare them to their children.

⁷That they might set their hope on God, And not forget the works of God, But diligently seek his commandments.

⁸That they should not be as their fathers, A perverse and provoking generation; A generation which set not its heart aright, And its spirit was not steadfast with God.

⁹The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, Turned back in the day of battle.

¹⁰They kept not the covenant of God, And would not walk in his law.

¹¹And they forgot his benefits, And his miracles which he had shown them;

¹²The miracles which he wrought before their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the plain of Tanis.

¹³He clove the sea, and led them through: He made the waters to stand as in a bottle.

¹⁴And he guided them with a cloud by day, And all the night with a light of fire.

¹⁵He clove a rock in the wilderness, And made them drink as in a great deep.

¹⁶And he brought water out of the rock, And caused waters to flow down as rivers.

¹⁷And they sinned yet more against him; They provoked the Most High in the wilderness.