Psalms 78:6-35

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,

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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