Psalms 78:1-29

¹A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.

²I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.

³Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.

⁴Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:

⁵How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:

⁶That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:

⁷That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:

⁸And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.

⁹The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.

¹⁰They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,

¹¹And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.

¹²Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.

¹³He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.

¹⁴In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.

¹⁵He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.

¹⁶He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.

¹⁷Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,

¹⁸And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.

¹⁹They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?

²⁰Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?

²¹Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,

²²Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.

²³Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,

²⁴And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.

²⁵Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.

²⁶He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.

²⁷Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.

²⁸And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.

²⁹So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.