{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "psalms", "chapter": 78 }, "data": { "n": 78, "bookSlug": "psalms", "bookCode": "PSA", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "PSA-78:1", "verseRef": "Ps.78.1", "text": "Give ear, O my people, to my law: Incline your ears to the words of my mouth." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "PSA-78:2", "verseRef": "Ps.78.2", "text": "I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old," },{ "n": 3, "refId": "PSA-78:3", "verseRef": "Ps.78.3", "text": "Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us." },{ "n": 4, "refId": "PSA-78:4", "verseRef": "Ps.78.4", "text": "We 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." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "PSA-78:5", "verseRef": "Ps.78.5", "text": "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;" },{ "n": 6, "refId": "PSA-78:6", "verseRef": "Ps.78.6", "text": "That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children," },{ "n": 7, "refId": "PSA-78:7", "verseRef": "Ps.78.7", "text": "That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments," },{ "n": 8, "refId": "PSA-78:8", "verseRef": "Ps.78.8", "text": "And 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." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "PSA-78:9", "verseRef": "Ps.78.9", "text": "The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "PSA-78:10", "verseRef": "Ps.78.10", "text": "They kept not the covenant of God, And refused to walk in his law;" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "PSA-78:11", "verseRef": "Ps.78.11", "text": "And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them." },{ "n": 12, "refId": "PSA-78:12", "verseRef": "Ps.78.12", "text": "Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "PSA-78:13", "verseRef": "Ps.78.13", "text": "He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "PSA-78:14", "verseRef": "Ps.78.14", "text": "In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "PSA-78:15", "verseRef": "Ps.78.15", "text": "He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "PSA-78:16", "verseRef": "Ps.78.16", "text": "He brought streams also out of the rock, And caused waters to run down like rivers." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "PSA-78:17", "verseRef": "Ps.78.17", "text": "Yet went they on still to sin against him, To rebel against the Most High in the desert." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "PSA-78:18", "verseRef": "Ps.78.18", "text": "And they tempted God in their heart By asking food according to their desire." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "PSA-78:19", "verseRef": "Ps.78.19", "text": "Yea, they spake against God; They said, Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "PSA-78:20", "verseRef": "Ps.78.20", "text": "Behold, he smote the rock, so that waters gushed out, And streams overflowed; Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?" },{ "n": 21, "refId": "PSA-78:21", "verseRef": "Ps.78.21", "text": "Therefore Jehovah heard, and was wroth; And a fire was kindled against Jacob, And anger also went up against Israel;" },{ "n": 22, "refId": "PSA-78:22", "verseRef": "Ps.78.22", "text": "Because they believed not in God, And trusted not in his salvation." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "PSA-78:23", "verseRef": "Ps.78.23", "text": "Yet he commanded the skies above, And opened the doors of heaven;" },{ "n": 24, "refId": "PSA-78:24", "verseRef": "Ps.78.24", "text": "And he rained down manna upon them to eat, And gave them food from heaven." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "PSA-78:25", "verseRef": "Ps.78.25", "text": "Man did eat the bread of the mighty: He sent them food to the full." },{ "n": 26, "refId": "PSA-78:26", "verseRef": "Ps.78.26", "text": "He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens; And by his power he guided the south wind." },{ "n": 27, "refId": "PSA-78:27", "verseRef": "Ps.78.27", "text": "He rained flesh also upon them as the dust, And winged birds as the sand of the seas:" },{ "n": 28, "refId": "PSA-78:28", "verseRef": "Ps.78.28", "text": "And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, Round about their habitations." },{ "n": 29, "refId": "PSA-78:29", "verseRef": "Ps.78.29", "text": "So they did eat, and were well filled; And he gave them their own desire." },{ "n": 30, "refId": "PSA-78:30", "verseRef": "Ps.78.30", "text": "They were not estranged from that which they desired, Their food was yet in their mouths," },{ "n": 31, "refId": "PSA-78:31", "verseRef": "Ps.78.31", "text": "When the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel." },{ "n": 32, "refId": "PSA-78:32", "verseRef": "Ps.78.32", "text": "For all this they sinned still, And believed not in his wondrous works." },{ "n": 33, "refId": "PSA-78:33", "verseRef": "Ps.78.33", "text": "Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror." },{ "n": 34, "refId": "PSA-78:34", "verseRef": "Ps.78.34", "text": "When he slew them, then they inquired after him; And they returned and sought God earnestly." },{ "n": 35, "refId": "PSA-78:35", "verseRef": "Ps.78.35", "text": "And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer." },{ "n": 36, "refId": "PSA-78:36", "verseRef": "Ps.78.36", "text": "But they flattered him with their mouth, And lied unto him with their tongue." },{ "n": 37, "refId": "PSA-78:37", "verseRef": "Ps.78.37", "text": "For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant." },{ "n": 38, "refId": "PSA-78:38", "verseRef": "Ps.78.38", "text": "But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath." },{ "n": 39, "refId": "PSA-78:39", "verseRef": "Ps.78.39", "text": "And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again." },{ "n": 40, "refId": "PSA-78:40", "verseRef": "Ps.78.40", "text": "How oft did they rebel against him in the wilderness, And grieve him in the desert!" },{ "n": 41, "refId": "PSA-78:41", "verseRef": "Ps.78.41", "text": "And they turned again and tempted God, And provoked the Holy One of Israel." },{ "n": 42, "refId": "PSA-78:42", "verseRef": "Ps.78.42", "text": "They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;" },{ "n": 43, "refId": "PSA-78:43", "verseRef": "Ps.78.43", "text": "How he set his signs in Egypt, And his wonders in the field of Zoan," },{ "n": 44, "refId": "PSA-78:44", "verseRef": "Ps.78.44", "text": "And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink." },{ "n": 45, "refId": "PSA-78:45", "verseRef": "Ps.78.45", "text": "He sent among them swarms of flies, which devoured them; And frogs, which destroyed them." },{ "n": 46, "refId": "PSA-78:46", "verseRef": "Ps.78.46", "text": "He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, And their labor unto the locust." },{ "n": 47, "refId": "PSA-78:47", "verseRef": "Ps.78.47", "text": "He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost." },{ "n": 48, "refId": "PSA-78:48", "verseRef": "Ps.78.48", "text": "He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts." },{ "n": 49, "refId": "PSA-78:49", "verseRef": "Ps.78.49", "text": "He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, Wrath, and indignation, and trouble, A band of angels of evil." },{ "n": 50, "refId": "PSA-78:50", "verseRef": "Ps.78.50", "text": "He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence," },{ "n": 51, "refId": "PSA-78:51", "verseRef": "Ps.78.51", "text": "And smote all the first-born in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham." },{ "n": 52, "refId": "PSA-78:52", "verseRef": "Ps.78.52", "text": "But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock." },{ "n": 53, "refId": "PSA-78:53", "verseRef": "Ps.78.53", "text": "And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies." },{ "n": 54, "refId": "PSA-78:54", "verseRef": "Ps.78.54", "text": "And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten." },{ "n": 55, "refId": "PSA-78:55", "verseRef": "Ps.78.55", "text": "He 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." },{ "n": 56, "refId": "PSA-78:56", "verseRef": "Ps.78.56", "text": "Yet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;" },{ "n": 57, "refId": "PSA-78:57", "verseRef": "Ps.78.57", "text": "But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers: They were turned aside like a deceitful bow." },{ "n": 58, "refId": "PSA-78:58", "verseRef": "Ps.78.58", "text": "For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images." },{ "n": 59, "refId": "PSA-78:59", "verseRef": "Ps.78.59", "text": "When God heard [this], he was wroth, And greatly abhorred Israel;" },{ "n": 60, "refId": "PSA-78:60", "verseRef": "Ps.78.60", "text": "So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;" },{ "n": 61, "refId": "PSA-78:61", "verseRef": "Ps.78.61", "text": "And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary`s hand." },{ "n": 62, "refId": "PSA-78:62", "verseRef": "Ps.78.62", "text": "He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance." },{ "n": 63, "refId": "PSA-78:63", "verseRef": "Ps.78.63", "text": "Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song." },{ "n": 64, "refId": "PSA-78:64", "verseRef": "Ps.78.64", "text": "Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation." },{ "n": 65, "refId": "PSA-78:65", "verseRef": "Ps.78.65", "text": "Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine." },{ "n": 66, "refId": "PSA-78:66", "verseRef": "Ps.78.66", "text": "And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach." },{ "n": 67, "refId": "PSA-78:67", "verseRef": "Ps.78.67", "text": "Moreover he refused the tent of Joseph, And chose not the tribe of Ephraim," },{ "n": 68, "refId": "PSA-78:68", "verseRef": "Ps.78.68", "text": "But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved." },{ "n": 69, "refId": "PSA-78:69", "verseRef": "Ps.78.69", "text": "And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever." },{ "n": 70, "refId": "PSA-78:70", "verseRef": "Ps.78.70", "text": "He chose David also his servant, And took him from the sheepfolds:" },{ "n": 71, "refId": "PSA-78:71", "verseRef": "Ps.78.71", "text": "From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance." },{ "n": 72, "refId": "PSA-78:72", "verseRef": "Ps.78.72", "text": "So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. Psalm 79 A Psalm of Asaph." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/psalms/chapters/78", "book": "/v1/library/books/psalms/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/psalms/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }