1Maschil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.⇆ compare2I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:⇆ compare3Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.⇆ compare4We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.⇆ compare5For 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:⇆ compare6That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:⇆ compare7That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:⇆ compare8And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.⇆ compare9The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.⇆ compare10They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;⇆ compare11And forgot his works, and his wonders that he had showed them.⇆ compare12Marvelous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.⇆ compare13He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as a heap.⇆ compare14In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.⇆ compare15He cleaved the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.⇆ compare16He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.⇆ compare17And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness.⇆ compare18And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust.⇆ compare19Yea, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?⇆ compare20Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh for his people?⇆ compare21Therefore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel;⇆ compare22Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:⇆ compare23Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven,⇆ compare24And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.⇆ compare25Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.⇆ compare26He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind.⇆ compare27He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:⇆ compare28And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations.⇆ compare29So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire;⇆ compare30They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,⇆ compare31The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.⇆ compare32For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.⇆ compare33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.⇆ compare34When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God.⇆ compare35And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.⇆ compare36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.⇆ compare37For their heart was not right with him, neither were they steadfast in his covenant.⇆ compare38But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.⇆ compare39For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.⇆ compare40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!⇆ compare41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.⇆ compare42They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy.⇆ compare43How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:⇆ compare44And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.⇆ compare45He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.⇆ compare46He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labor unto the locust.⇆ compare47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost.⇆ compare48He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.⇆ compare49He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.⇆ compare50He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;⇆ compare51And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:⇆ compare52But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.⇆ compare53And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.⇆ compare54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.⇆ compare55He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.⇆ compare56Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:⇆ compare57But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.⇆ compare58For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.⇆ compare59When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:⇆ compare60So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;⇆ compare61And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.⇆ compare62He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.⇆ compare63The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.⇆ compare64Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.⇆ compare65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.⇆ compare66And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.⇆ compare67Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:⇆ compare68But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.⇆ compare69And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established forever.⇆ compare70He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds:⇆ compare71From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.⇆ compare72So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.⇆ compare