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| 1. | {An instruction. Of Asaph.} Give ear, O my people, to my law; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. |
| 2. | I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter riddles from of old, |
| 3. | Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us: |
| 4. | We will not hide them from their sons, shewing forth to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength, and his marvellous works which he hath done. |
| 5. | For 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; |
| 6. | That the generation to come might know them, the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell them to their children, |
| 7. | And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of łGod, but observe his commandments; |
| 8. | And 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 łGod. |
| 9. | The sons of Ephraim, armed bowmen, turned back in the day of battle. |
| 10. | They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; |
| 11. | And forgot his doings, and his marvellous works which he had shewn them. |
| 12. | In the sight of their fathers had he done wonders, in the land of Egypt, the field of Zoan. |
| 13. | He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; and made the waters to stand as a heap; |
| 14. | And he led them with a cloud in the daytime, and all the night with the light of fire. |
| 15. | He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the depths, abundantly; |
| 16. | And he brought streams out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers. |
| 17. | Yet they still went on sinning against him, provoking the Most High in the desert; |
| 18. | And they tempted łGod in their heart, by asking meat for their lust; |
| 19. | And they spoke against God: they said, Is łGod able to prepare a table in the wilderness? |
| 20. | Behold, he smote the rock, and waters gushed out, and streams overflowed; is he able to give bread also, or provide flesh for his people? |
| 21. | Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; and fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also went up against Israel: |
| 22. | Because they believed not in God, and confided not in his salvation; |
| 23. | Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and had opened the doors of the heavens, |
| 24. | And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the corn of the heavens. |
| 25. | Man did eat the bread of the mighty; he sent them provision to the full. |
| 26. | He caused the east wind to rise in the heavens, and by his strength he brought the south wind; |
| 27. | And he rained flesh upon them as dust, and feathered fowl as the sand of the seas, |
| 28. | And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations: |
| 29. | And they did eat, and were well filled; for that they lusted after, he brought to them. |
| 30. | They were not alienated from their lust, their meat was yet in their mouths, |
| 31. | When the anger of God went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel. |
| 32. | For all this, they sinned still, and believed not in his marvellous works; |
| 33. | And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror. |
| 34. | When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after łGod; |
| 35. | And they remembered that God was their rock, and łGod, the Most High, their redeemer. |
| 36. | But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied unto him with their tongue; |
| 37. | For their heart was not firm toward him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant. |
| 38. | But he was merciful: he forgave the iniquity, and destroyed them not; but many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his fury: |
| 39. | And he remembered that they were flesh, a breath that passeth away and cometh not again. |
| 40. | How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! |
| 41. | And they turned again and tempted łGod, and grieved the Holy One of Israel. |
| 42. | They remembered not his hand, the day when he delivered them from the oppressor, |
| 43. | How he set his signs in Egypt, and his miracles in the field of Zoan; |
| 44. | And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink; |
| 45. | He sent dog-flies among them, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them; |
| 46. | And he gave their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust; |
| 47. | He killed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with hail-stones; |
| 48. | And he delivered up their cattle to the hail, and their flocks to thunderbolts. |
| 49. | He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and distress, -- a mission of angels of woes. |
| 50. | He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence; |
| 51. | And he smote all the firstborn in Egypt, the first-fruits of their vigour in the tents of Ham. |
| 52. | And he made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock; |
| 53. | And he led them safely, so that they were without fear; and the sea covered their enemies. |
| 54. | And he brought them to his holy border, this mountain, which his right hand purchased; |
| 55. | And he drove out the nations before them, and allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents. |
| 56. | But they tempted and provoked God, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies, |
| 57. | And they drew back and dealt treacherously like their fathers: they turned like a deceitful bow. |
| 58. | And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. |
| 59. | God heard, and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: |
| 60. | And he forsook the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where he had dwelt among men, |
| 61. | And gave his strength into captivity, and his glory into the hand of the oppressor; |
| 62. | And delivered up his people unto the sword, and was very wroth with his inheritance: |
| 63. | The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in nuptial song; |
| 64. | Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation. |
| 65. | Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man that shouteth aloud by reason of wine; |
| 66. | And he smote his adversaries in the hinder part, and put them to everlasting reproach. |
| 67. | And he rejected the tent of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim, |
| 68. | But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved; |
| 69. | And he built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he hath founded for ever. |
| 70. | And he chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds: |
| 71. | From following the suckling-ewes, he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. |
| 72. | And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart, and led them by the skilfulness of his hands. |