PsalmsJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicSharePsalms 78ASV - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Psalms 1Psalms 2Psalms 3Psalms 4Psalms 5Psalms 6Psalms 7Psalms 8Psalms 9Psalms 10Psalms 11Psalms 12Psalms 13Psalms 14Psalms 15Psalms 16Psalms 17Psalms 18Psalms 19Psalms 20Psalms 21Psalms 22Psalms 23Psalms 24Psalms 25Psalms 26Psalms 27Psalms 28Psalms 29Psalms 30Psalms 31Psalms 32Psalms 33Psalms 34Psalms 35Psalms 36Psalms 37Psalms 38Psalms 39Psalms 40Psalms 41Psalms 42Psalms 43Psalms 44Psalms 45Psalms 46Psalms 47Psalms 48Psalms 49Psalms 50Psalms 51Psalms 52Psalms 53Psalms 54Psalms 55Psalms 56Psalms 57Psalms 58Psalms 59Psalms 60Psalms 61Psalms 62Psalms 63Psalms 64Psalms 65Psalms 66Psalms 67Psalms 68Psalms 69Psalms 70Psalms 71Psalms 72Psalms 73Psalms 74Psalms 75Psalms 76Psalms 77Psalms 78Psalms 79Psalms 80Psalms 81Psalms 82Psalms 83Psalms 84Psalms 85Psalms 86Psalms 87Psalms 88Psalms 89Psalms 90Psalms 91Psalms 92Psalms 93Psalms 94Psalms 95Psalms 96Psalms 97Psalms 98Psalms 99Psalms 100Psalms 101Psalms 102Psalms 103Psalms 104Psalms 105Psalms 106Psalms 107Psalms 108Psalms 109Psalms 110Psalms 111Psalms 112Psalms 113Psalms 114Psalms 115Psalms 116Psalms 117Psalms 118Psalms 119Psalms 120Psalms 121Psalms 122Psalms 123Psalms 124Psalms 125Psalms 126Psalms 127Psalms 128Psalms 129Psalms 130Psalms 131Psalms 132Psalms 133Psalms 134Psalms 135Psalms 136Psalms 137Psalms 138Psalms 139Psalms 140Psalms 141Psalms 142Psalms 143Psalms 144Psalms 145Psalms 146Psalms 147Psalms 148Psalms 149Psalms 150›Psalms 78ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old, 3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done. 5For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; 6That the generation to come might knowthem, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tellthemto their children, 7That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments, 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 showed them. 12Marvellous 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 a 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 food according to their desire. 19Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? 20Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people? 21Therefore Jehovah 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 food from heaven. 25Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full. 26He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind. 27He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds 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 their own desire. 30They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food 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 earnestly. 35And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer. 36But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue. 37For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant. 38But he, being merciful, forgave theiriniquity, and destroyedthemnot: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath. 39And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again. 40How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert! 41And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel. 42They remembered not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary; 43How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan, 44And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink. 45He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them. 46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust. 47He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost. 48He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil. 50He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence, 51And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham. 52But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten. 55He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. 56Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies; 57But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow. 58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59When God heardthis, he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel; 60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men; 61And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary’s hand. 62He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance. 63Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song. 64Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation. 65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 66And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach. 67Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim, 68But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved. 69And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever. 70He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds: 71From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. 72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. ‹Previous chapterPsalms 77Next chapterPsalms 79›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.VersionsPsalms 78 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. 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