Thematic Bible
Psalm 78:1 (show verse)
([Psalm of Asaph]) Listen, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 78:2 (show verse)
I will open my mouth in an illustration. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Psalm 78:3 (show verse)
That we have heard and known and our fathers have told us.
Psalm 78:4 (show verse)
We will not conceal them from their children, but tell to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, and his strength and his wondrous works that he has done.
Psalm 78:5 (show verse)
He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel. This he commanded our fathers that they should teach them to their children,
Psalm 78:6 (show verse)
That the generation to come might know, the children to be born, that they may arise and tell to their children,
Psalm 78:7 (show verse)
That they should put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments.
Psalm 78:8 (show verse)
They should not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that did not prepare its heart and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Psalm 78:9 (show verse)
The sons of Ephraim were archers well equipped with bows. Yet they turned and ran in the day of battle.
Psalm 78:10 (show verse)
They did not keep the covenant of God. They refused to walk in his law.
Psalm 78:11 (show verse)
They forgot his deeds and his miracles that he had shown them.
Psalm 78:12 (show verse)
He wrought wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
Psalm 78:13 (show verse)
He divided the sea and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand up like a heap.
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Psalm 78:14 (show verse)
He led them with the cloud by day and with a light of fire by night.
Psalm 78:15 (show verse)
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.
Psalm 78:16 (show verse)
He brought forth streams also from the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers.
Psalm 78:17 (show verse)
Yet they still continued to sin against him. They rebelled against the Most High in the desert.
Psalm 78:18 (show verse)
In their heart they put God to the test by asking food according to their desire.
Psalm 78:19 (show verse)
Then they spoke against God. They said: Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
Psalm 78:20 (show verse)
Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, and streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?
Psalm 78:21 (show verse)
Therefore Jehovah heard and was full of wrath. A fire was kindled against Jacob and anger also mounted against Israel,
Psalm 78:22 (show verse)
Because they did not believe in God and did not trust in his salvation.
Psalm 78:23 (show verse)
Yet he commanded the clouds above and opened the doors of heaven.
Psalm 78:24 (show verse)
He rained down manna upon them to eat and gave them food from heaven.
Psalm 78:25 (show verse)
Man did eat the bread of 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 directed the south wind.
Psalm 78:27 (show verse)
He rained meat upon them like the dust, even winged fowl like the sand of the seas,
Psalm 78:28 (show verse)
Then he let them fall in the midst of their camp, round about their dwellings.
Psalm 78:29 (show verse)
So they ate and were well filled, and their desire he gave to them.
Psalm 78:30 (show verse)
Before they had satisfied their desire, while their food was in their mouths,
Psalm 78:31 (show verse)
The anger of God rose against them and killed some of their stoutest ones, and subdued the choice men of Israel.
Psalm 78:32 (show verse)
In spite of all this they still sinned. They did not believe in his wonderful works.
Psalm 78:33 (show verse)
He brought their days to an end like a whisper in the wind. He brought their years to an end in terror.
Psalm 78:34 (show verse)
When he killed some of them, the rest searched for him. They turned from their sins and eagerly looked for God.
Psalm 78:35 (show verse)
They remembered that God was their rock, that the Most High was their defender.
Psalm 78:36 (show verse)
They flattered him with their mouths and lied to him with their tongues.
Psalm 78:37 (show verse)
Their hearts were not loyal to him. They were not faithful to his promise.
Psalm 78:38 (show verse)
But he is compassionate. He forgave their sin. He did not destroy them. He restrained his anger many times. He did not display all of his fury.
Psalm 78:39 (show verse)
He remembered that they were only flesh and blood, a breeze that blows and does not return.
Psalm 78:40 (show verse)
How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness! How often they caused him grief in the desert!
Psalm 78:41 (show verse)
They tested God again and again, and they pushed the Holy One of Israel to the limit.
No Themes for this verse.
Psalm 78:42 (show verse)
They did not remember his power and the day he freed them from their oppressor,
Psalm 78:43 (show verse)
when he performed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the fields of Zoan.
Psalm 78:44 (show verse)
He turned their rivers into blood so that they could not drink from their streams.
Psalm 78:45 (show verse)
He sent a swarm of flies that bit them and frogs that ruined them.
Psalm 78:46 (show verse)
He gave their crops to grasshoppers and their produce to locusts.
Psalm 78:47 (show verse)
He killed their vines with hail and their fig trees with frost.
Psalm 78:48 (show verse)
He let the hail strike their cattle and bolts of lightning strike their livestock.
Psalm 78:49 (show verse)
He sent his fierce burning anger, his rage and fury against them. He sent an army of destroying angels.
Psalm 78:50 (show verse)
He cleared a path for his anger. He did not spare them from death. He let the plague take their lives.
Psalm 78:51 (show verse)
He destroyed every firstborn in Egypt, the ones born in the tents of Ham when their fathers were young.
Psalm 78:52 (show verse)
He led his own people out like sheep and guided them like a flock through the wilderness.
Psalm 78:53 (show verse)
He led them safely. They had no fear while the sea covered their enemies.
Psalm 78:54 (show verse)
He brought them into his holy land, to this mountain that his power had won.
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Psalm 78:55 (show verse)
He drove nations out of their way and gave them the land of the nations as their inheritance. He settled the tribes of Israel in their own tents.
Psalm 78:56 (show verse)
They tested God Most High and rebelled against him. They did not obey his written instructions.
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Psalm 78:57 (show verse)
They were disloyal and treacherous like their ancestors. They were like arrows shot from a defective bow.
Psalm 78:58 (show verse)
They provoked him to anger (indignation) because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.
Psalm 78:59 (show verse)
When God heard, he became furious. He greatly abhorred Israel.
Psalm 78:60 (show verse)
He abandoned his dwelling place in Shiloh, the tent where he had lived among humans.
Psalm 78:61 (show verse)
He allowed his power to be taken captive and handed his glory over to an oppressor.
Psalm 78:62 (show verse)
He let swords kill his people. He was furious with those who belonged to him.
Psalm 78:63 (show verse)
Fire consumed his best young men, so his virgins were not given in marriage.
Psalm 78:64 (show verse)
His priests were cut down with swords. The widows of his priests could not even weep for them.
Psalm 78:65 (show verse)
Jehovah woke up like one who had been sleeping, like a warrior sobering up from too much wine.
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Psalm 78:66 (show verse)
He struck his enemies from behind and disgraced them forever.
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 he loved.
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Psalm 78:69 (show verse)
He built his holy place to be like the high heavens, like the earth that he made to last for a long time.
Psalm 78:70 (show verse)
He chose his servant David. He took him from the sheep pens.
Psalm 78:71 (show verse)
He brought him from tending the ewes that had lambs so that David could be the shepherd of the people of Jacob, of Israel, the people who belonged to Jehovah.
Psalm 78:72 (show verse)
With unselfish devotion David became their shepherd. With skill he guided them.