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1 Give ear, O my peo­ple, to my law: in­cline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a para­ble: I will ut­ter dark say­ings of old:
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 gen­er­a­tion to come the prais­es of the LORD, and his strength, and his won­der­ful works that he hath done.
5 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:
6 That the gen­er­a­tion to come might know them, even the chil­dren which should be born; who should arise and de­clare them to their chil­dren:
7 That they might set their hope in God, and not for­get the works of God, but keep his com­mand­ments:
8 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.
9 The chil­dren of Ephraim, being armed, and car­ry­ing bows, turned back in the day of bat­tle.
10 They kept not the covenant of God, and re­fused to walk in his law;
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 land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He di­vid­ed the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made the wa­ters to stand as an heap.
14 In the day­time also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 He clave the rocks in the wilder­ness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
16 He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused wa­ters to run down like rivers.
17 And they sinned yet more against him by pro­vok­ing the most High in the wilder­ness.
18 And they tempt­ed God in their heart by ask­ing meat for their lust.
19 Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God fur­nish a table in the wilder­ness?
20 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?
21 There­fore the LORD heard this, and was wroth: so a fire was kin­dled against Ja­cob, and anger also came up against Is­rael;
22 Be­cause they be­lieved not in God, and trust­ed not in his sal­va­tion:
23 Though he had com­mand­ed the clouds from above, and opened the doors of heav­en,
24 And had rained down man­na upon them to eat, and had giv­en them of the corn of heav­en.
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 he brought in the south wind.
27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feath­ered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
28 And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habi­ta­tions.
29 So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own de­sire;
30 They were not es­tranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fat­test of them, and smote down the cho­sen men of Is­rael.
32 For all this they sinned still, and be­lieved not for his won­drous works.
33 There­fore their days did he con­sume in van­i­ty, and their years in trou­ble.
34 When he slew them, then they sought him: and they re­turned and en­quired ear­ly af­ter God.
35 And they re­mem­bered that God was their rock, and the high God their re­deemer.
36 Nev­er­the­less they did flat­ter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
37 For their heart was not right with him, nei­ther were they sted­fast in his covenant.
38 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.
39 For he re­mem­bered that they were but flesh; a wind that pas­seth away, and cometh not again.
40 How oft did they pro­voke him in the wilder­ness, and grieve him in the desert!
41 Yea, they turned back and tempt­ed God, and lim­it­ed the Holy One of Is­rael.
42 They re­mem­bered not his hand, nor the day when he de­liv­ered them from the en­e­my.
43 How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his won­ders in the field of Zoan:
44 And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
45 He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which de­voured them; and frogs, which de­stroyed them.
46 He gave also their in­crease unto the cater­piller, and their labour unto the lo­cust.
47 He de­stroyed their vines with hail, and their syco­more trees with frost.
48 He gave up their cat­tle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thun­der­bolts.
49 He cast upon them the fierce­ness of his anger, wrath, and in­dig­na­tion, and trou­ble, by send­ing evil an­gels a­mong them.
50 He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pesti­lence;
51 And smote all the first­born in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the taber­na­cles of Ham:
52 But made his own peo­ple to go forth like sheep, and guid­ed them in the wilder­ness like a flock.
53 And he led them on safe­ly, so that they feared not: but the sea over­whelmed their en­e­mies.
54 And he brought them to the bor­der of his sanc­tu­ary, even to this moun­tain, which his right hand had pur­chased.
55 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.
56 Yet they tempt­ed and pro­voked the most high God, and kept not his tes­ti­monies:
57 But turned back, and dealt un­faith­ful­ly like their fa­thers: they were turned aside like a de­ceit­ful bow.
58 For they pro­voked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jeal­ousy with their graven im­ages.
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 placed among men;
61 And de­liv­ered his strength into cap­tiv­i­ty, and his glo­ry into the enemy's hand.
62 He gave his peo­ple over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his in­her­i­tance.
63 The fire con­sumed their young men; and their maid­ens were not giv­en to mar­riage.
64 Their priests fell by the sword; and their wid­ows made no lamen­ta­tion.
65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by rea­son of wine.
66 And he smote his en­e­mies in the hin­der parts: he put them to a per­pet­u­al re­proach.
67 More­over he re­fused the taber­na­cle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
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 which he hath es­tab­lished for ev­er.
70 He chose David also his ser­vant, and took him from the sheep­folds:
71 From fol­low­ing the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Ja­cob his peo­ple, and Is­rael his in­her­i­tance.
72 So he fed them ac­cord­ing to the in­tegri­ty of his heart; and guid­ed them by the skil­ful­ness of his hands.