Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,

We will not hide them from their children, telling to the generation to come the praises of Yahweh, his strength, and his wondrous works that he has done.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a teaching in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children;

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.

He also chose David his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds;

So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them by the skillfulness of his hands. A Psalm by Asaph.

He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.

Then the Lord awakened as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts by reason of wine.

But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn't destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn't stir up all his wrath.

Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, and didn't keep his testimonies;

For all this they still sinned, and didn't believe in his wondrous works.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

that the generation to come might know, even the children who should be born; who should arise and tell their children,

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

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

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

In the daytime he also led them with a cloud, and all night with a light of fire.

When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

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

that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments,

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.

how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,

Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

When God heard this, he was angry, and greatly abhorred Israel;

They tempted God in their heart by asking food according to their desire.

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

and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn't make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

But chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion which he loved.

He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.

They didn't keep God's covenant, and refused to walk in his law.

He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

But he led forth his own people like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

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

So that he forsook the tent of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;

Moreover he rejected the tent of Joseph, and didn't choose the tribe of Ephraim,

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they faithful in his covenant.

But they flattered him with their mouth, and lied to him with their tongue.

He made a path for his anger. He didn't spare their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence,

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

He split the sea, and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand as a heap.

They forgot his doings, his wondrous works that he had shown them.

He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken.

He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

from following the ewes that have their young, he brought him to be the shepherd of Jacob, his people, and Israel, his inheritance.

He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.

He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.

and delivered his strength into captivity, his glory into the adversary's hand.

because they didn't believe in God, and didn't trust in his salvation.

He caused the east wind to blow in the sky. By his power he guided the south wind.

They didn't remember his hand, nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

when the anger of God went up against them, killed some of the fattest of them, and struck down the young men of Israel.

He rained also flesh on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.

He gave also their increase to the caterpillar, and their labor to the locust.

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

Fire devoured their young men. Their virgins had no wedding song.

He gave over their livestock also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.

he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

So they ate, and were well filled. He gave them their own desire.

They didn't turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn't weep.

He also gave his people over to the sword, and was angry with his inheritance.

He let them fall in the midst of their camp, around their habitations.