The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle (78:9)

They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law (78:10)

And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had showed them (78:11)

Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan (78:12)

He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the waters to stand as an heap (78:13)

In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire (78:14)

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths (78:15)

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers (78:16)

And they sinned yet more against him by provoking the most High in the wilderness (78:17)

And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust (78:18)

Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness (78:19)

Behold, 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 (78:20)

Therefore the Lord heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and anger also came up against Israel (78:21)

Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation (78:22)

Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heaven (78:23)

And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven (78:24)

Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full (78:25)

He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power he brought in the south wind (78:26)

He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea (78:27)

And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations (78:28)

So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire (78:29)

They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths (78:30)

The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel (78:31)

For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works (78:32)

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble (78:33)

When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and inquired early after God (78:34)

And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer (78:35)

Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues (78:36)

For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant (78:37)

But 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 (78:38)

For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again (78:39)

How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert (78:40)

Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel (78:41)

They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy (78:42)

How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan (78:43)

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink (78:44)

He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them (78:45)

He gave also their increase unto the caterpillar, and their labour unto the locust (78:46)

He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost (78:47)

He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts (78:48)

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them (78:49)

He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence (78:50)

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham (78:51)

But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock (78:52)

And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies (78:53)

And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased (78:54)

He 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 (78:55)

Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies (78:56)

But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow (78:57)

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images (78:58)

When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel (78:59)

So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men (78:60)

And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand (78:61)

He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance (78:62)

The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage (78:63)

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation (78:64)

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine (78:65)

And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach (78:66)

Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim (78:67)

But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved (78:68)

And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established for ever (78:69)

He chose David also his servant, and took him from the sheepfolds (78:70)

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance (78:71)

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands (78:72)

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