PSALMS 78:8-34

⁸And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

⁹The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

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

¹¹And they forgat his doings, and his wondrous works that he had shewed them.

¹²Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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

¹⁴In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.

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

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

¹⁷Yet went they on still to sin against him, to rebel against the Most High in the desert.

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

¹⁹Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

²⁰Behold, he smote the rock, that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; can he give bread also? will he provide flesh for his people?

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

²²Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation.

²³Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors of heaven;

²⁴And he rained down manna upon them to eat, and gave them of the corn of heaven.

²⁵Man did eat the bread of the mighty: he sent them meat to the full.

²⁶He caused the east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he guided the south wind.

²⁷He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, and winged fowl as the sand of the seas:

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

²⁹So they did eat, and were well filled; and he gave them that they lusted after.

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

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

³²For all this they sinned still, and believed not in his wondrous works.

³³Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in terror.

³⁴When he slew them, then they inquired after him: and they returned and sought God early.