1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words
2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of
3 Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
4 We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the
5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in
6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works
8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious
9 The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his
11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.
12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the
13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made
14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night
15 He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to
17 And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High
18 And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table
20 Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the
21 Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was
22 Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his
23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them
25 Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.
26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their
30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them,
32 For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his
33 Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and
35 And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God
36 Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they
37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they
38 But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth
40 How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him
41 Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One
42 They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them;
46 He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their
47 He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees
48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to
49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death,
51 And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their
52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them
53 And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea
54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this
55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an
56 Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not
57 But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they
58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved
59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he
61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into
62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with
63 The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no
65 Then the LORD awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a
67 Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the
68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth
70 He chose David also his servant, and took him from the
71 From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed
72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and