WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:04.140 --> 00:00:08.500 Psalm 78 - Maschil of Asaph. 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:17.479 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 00:00:18.690 --> 00:00:23.750 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: 00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:27.659 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 00:00:28.990 --> 00:00:33.050 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the 00:00:33.050 --> 00:00:37.860 praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:48.619 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he 00:00:48.650 --> 00:00:52.650 commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 00:00:53.469 --> 00:00:57.920 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which 00:00:57.930 --> 00:01:02.330 should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:08.699 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of 00:01:08.700 --> 00:01:11.429 God, but keep his commandments: 00:01:12.430 --> 00:01:16.280 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious 00:01:16.280 --> 00:01:21.799 generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose 00:01:21.800 --> 00:01:23.990 spirit was not stedfast with God. 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.309 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned 00:01:29.320 --> 00:01:30.670 back in the day of battle. 00:01:31.590 --> 00:01:36.230 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:41.100 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them. 00:01:42.940 --> 00:01:46.429 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land 00:01:46.430 --> 00:01:48.220 of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. 00:01:49.260 --> 00:01:53.730 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made 00:01:53.730 --> 00:01:55.490 the waters to stand as an heap. 00:01:56.730 --> 00:02:01.230 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the 00:02:01.230 --> 00:02:02.920 night with a light of fire. 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:07.400 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink 00:02:07.470 --> 00:02:08.880 as out of the great depths. 00:02:09.870 --> 00:02:15.340 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. 00:02:17.290 --> 00:02:22.809 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness. 00:02:23.910 --> 00:02:27.710 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust. 00:02:28.790 --> 00:02:33.549 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? 00:02:34.420 --> 00:02:39.730 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:42.960 overflowed; can he give bread also? 00:02:43.220 --> 00:02:45.190 can he provide flesh for his people? 00:02:46.200 --> 00:02:50.760 Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was 00:02:50.790 --> 00:02:54.690 kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel; 00:02:55.219 --> 00:02:59.679 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation: 00:03:01.029 --> 00:03:05.100 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven, 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:08.949 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given 00:03:09.059 --> 00:03:10.640 them of the corn of heaven. 00:03:11.559 --> 00:03:15.769 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full. 00:03:16.250 --> 00:03:20.240 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power 00:03:20.250 --> 00:03:21.680 he brought in the south wind. 00:03:22.460 --> 00:03:26.329 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls 00:03:26.380 --> 00:03:27.890 like as the sand of the sea: 00:03:28.719 --> 00:03:33.440 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. 00:03:33.830 --> 00:03:38.490 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; 00:03:40.710 --> 00:03:42.430 They were not estranged from their lust. 00:03:43.020 --> 00:03:44.930 But while their meat was yet in their mouths, 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:48.929 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and 00:03:48.929 --> 00:03:50.840 smote down the chosen men of Israel. 00:03:52.119 --> 00:03:57.660 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works. 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:10.180 enquired early after God. 00:04:10.980 --> 00:04:15.029 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer. 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:18.990 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they 00:04:18.990 --> 00:04:20.720 lied unto him with their tongues. 00:04:21.370 --> 00:04:25.130 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they 00:04:25.130 --> 00:04:26.660 stedfast in his covenant. 00:04:27.650 --> 00:04:33.360 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: 00:04:34.390 --> 00:04:39.530 yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath. 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.800 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth 00:04:44.890 --> 00:04:46.380 away, and cometh not again. 00:04:48.250 --> 00:04:51.780 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! 00:04:52.780 --> 00:04:57.410 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel. 00:04:58.339 --> 00:05:02.910 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. 00:05:03.790 --> 00:05:08.310 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan. 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:13.100 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, 00:05:13.100 --> 00:05:14.279 that they could not drink. 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.670 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; 00:05:18.910 --> 00:05:20.540 and frogs, which destroyed them. 00:05:21.740 --> 00:05:25.070 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and 00:05:25.070 --> 00:05:26.760 their labour unto the locust. 00:05:27.960 --> 00:05:32.070 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost. 00:05:33.210 --> 00:05:37.909 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.800 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and 00:05:42.810 --> 00:05:46.710 indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. 00:05:49.170 --> 00:05:53.740 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave 00:05:53.740 --> 00:05:55.520 their life over to the pestilence; 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:00.690 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength 00:06:00.690 --> 00:06:02.080 in the tabernacles of Ham: 00:06:04.010 --> 00:06:08.210 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them 00:06:08.210 --> 00:06:09.659 in the wilderness like a flock. 00:06:12.220 --> 00:06:15.800 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:17.880 sea overwhelmed their enemies. 00:06:19.660 --> 00:06:23.879 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, 00:06:24.010 --> 00:06:25.849 which his right hand had purchased. 00:06:26.729 --> 00:06:31.390 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance 00:06:31.390 --> 00:06:35.510 by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 00:06:36.710 --> 00:06:42.510 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies: 00:06:43.540 --> 00:06:48.970 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were 00:06:48.970 --> 00:06:51.370 turned aside like a deceitful bow. 00:06:52.080 --> 00:06:56.280 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to 00:06:56.280 --> 00:06:58.150 jealousy with their graven images. 00:06:59.420 --> 00:07:03.919 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: 00:07:04.769 --> 00:07:09.180 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:10.610 which he placed among men; 00:07:11.550 --> 00:07:16.189 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand. 00:07:17.280 --> 00:07:23.429 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance. 00:07:24.470 --> 00:07:29.370 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage. 00:07:30.330 --> 00:07:34.489 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation. 00:07:36.439 --> 00:07:41.619 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man 00:07:41.779 --> 00:07:43.480 that shouteth by reason of wine. 00:07:43.980 --> 00:07:47.000 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:48.960 them to a perpetual reproach. 00:07:50.470 --> 00:07:54.050 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and 00:07:54.050 --> 00:07:55.410 chose not the tribe of Ephraim: 00:07:56.320 --> 00:08:00.970 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 00:08:01.930 --> 00:08:06.710 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which 00:08:06.710 --> 00:08:08.390 he hath established for ever. 00:08:09.219 --> 00:08:13.849 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: 00:08:14.750 --> 00:08:19.350 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his 00:08:19.350 --> 00:08:22.150 people, and Israel his inheritance. 00:08:23.020 --> 00:08:27.599 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided 00:08:27.599 --> 00:08:30.080 them by the skilfulness of his hands.