Thematic Bible
Psalm 78:1 (show verse)
Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
Psalm 78:2 (show verse)
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old,
Psalm 78:3 (show verse)
things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us.
Psalm 78:4 (show verse)
We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the LORD, and his might, and the wonders that he has done.
Psalm 78:5 (show verse)
He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
Psalm 78:6 (show verse)
that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn, and arise and tell them to their children,
Psalm 78:7 (show verse)
so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;
Psalm 78:8 (show verse)
and that they should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not steadfast, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalm 78:9 (show verse)
The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
Psalm 78:10 (show verse)
They did not keep God's covenant, but refused to walk according to his law.
Psalm 78:11 (show verse)
They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
Psalm 78:12 (show verse)
In the sight of their fathers he performed wonders in the land of Egypt, in the fields of Zoan.
Psalm 78:13 (show verse)
He divided the sea and let them pass through it, and made the waters stand like a heap.
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Psalm 78:14 (show verse)
In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a fiery light.
Psalm 78:15 (show verse)
He split rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink abundantly as from the deep.
Psalm 78:16 (show verse)
He made streams come out of the rock and caused waters to flow down like rivers.
Psalm 78:17 (show verse)
Yet they sinned still more against him, rebelling against the Most High in the desert.
Psalm 78:18 (show verse)
They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
Psalm 78:19 (show verse)
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
Psalm 78:20 (show verse)
He struck the rock so that water gushed out and streams overflowed. Can he also give bread or provide meat for his people?"
Psalm 78:21 (show verse)
Therefore, when the LORD heard, he was full of wrath; a fire was kindled against Jacob; his anger rose against Israel,
Psalm 78:22 (show verse)
because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.
Psalm 78:23 (show verse)
Yet he commanded the skies above and opened the doors of heaven,
Psalm 78:24 (show verse)
and he rained down on them manna to eat and gave them the grain of heaven.
Psalm 78:25 (show verse)
Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.
Psalm 78:26 (show verse)
He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens, and by his power he led out the south wind;
Psalm 78:27 (show verse)
he rained meat on them like dust, winged birds like the sand of the seas;
Psalm 78:28 (show verse)
he let them fall in the midst of their camp, all around their dwellings.
Psalm 78:29 (show verse)
And they ate and were well filled, for he gave them what they craved.
Psalm 78:30 (show verse)
But before they had satisfied their craving, while the food was still in their mouths,
Psalm 78:31 (show verse)
the anger of God rose against them, and he killed the strongest of them and laid low the young men of Israel.
Psalm 78:32 (show verse)
In spite of all this, they still sinned; despite his wonders, they did not believe.
Psalm 78:33 (show verse)
So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.
Psalm 78:34 (show verse)
When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly.
Psalm 78:35 (show verse)
They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God their redeemer.
Psalm 78:36 (show verse)
But they flattered him with their mouths; they lied to him with their tongues.
Psalm 78:37 (show verse)
Their heart was not steadfast toward him; they were not faithful to his covenant.
Psalm 78:38 (show verse)
Yet he, being compassionate, atoned for their iniquity and did not destroy them; he restrained his anger often and did not stir up all his wrath.
Psalm 78:39 (show verse)
He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes and comes not again.
Psalm 78:40 (show verse)
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!
Psalm 78:41 (show verse)
They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
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Psalm 78:42 (show verse)
They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
Psalm 78:43 (show verse)
when he performed his signs in Egypt and his marvels in the fields of Zoan.
Psalm 78:44 (show verse)
He turned their rivers to blood, so that they could not drink of their streams.
Psalm 78:45 (show verse)
He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
Psalm 78:46 (show verse)
He gave their crops to the destroying locust and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
Psalm 78:47 (show verse)
He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamores with frost.
Psalm 78:48 (show verse)
He gave over their cattle to the hail and their flocks to thunderbolts.
Psalm 78:49 (show verse)
He let loose on them his burning anger, wrath, indignation, and distress, a company of destroying angels.
Psalm 78:50 (show verse)
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.
Psalm 78:51 (show verse)
He struck down every firstborn in Egypt, the firstfruits of their strength in the tents of Ham.
Psalm 78:52 (show verse)
Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
Psalm 78:53 (show verse)
He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
Psalm 78:54 (show verse)
And he brought them to his holy land, to the mountain which his right hand had won.
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Psalm 78:55 (show verse)
He drove out nations before them; he apportioned them for a possession and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
Psalm 78:56 (show verse)
Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God and did not keep his testimonies,
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Psalm 78:57 (show verse)
but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
Psalm 78:58 (show verse)
For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
Psalm 78:59 (show verse)
When God heard, he was full of wrath, and he utterly rejected Israel.
Psalm 78:60 (show verse)
He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind,
Psalm 78:61 (show verse)
and delivered his power to captivity, his glory to the hand of the foe.
Psalm 78:62 (show verse)
He gave his people over to the sword and vented his wrath on his heritage.
Psalm 78:63 (show verse)
Fire devoured their young men, and their young women had no marriage song.
Psalm 78:64 (show verse)
Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.
Psalm 78:65 (show verse)
Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.
No Themes for this verse.
Psalm 78:66 (show verse)
And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.
Psalm 78:67 (show verse)
He rejected the tent of Joseph; he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim,
Psalm 78:68 (show verse)
but he chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which he loves.
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Psalm 78:69 (show verse)
He built his sanctuary like the high heavens, like the earth, which he has founded forever.
Psalm 78:70 (show verse)
He chose David his servant and took him from the sheepfolds;
Psalm 78:71 (show verse)
from following the nursing ewes he brought him to shepherd Jacob his people, Israel his inheritance.
Psalm 78:72 (show verse)
With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.