# Psalms 78

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

*A Maskil of Asaph.*

## Text

[1] Give ear, O my people, to my instruction;
listen to the words of my mouth. [2] I will open my mouth in parables;
I will utter things hidden from the beginning, [3] that we have heard and known
and our fathers have relayed to us. [4] We will not hide them from their children,
but will declare to the next generation
the praises of the LORD and His might,
and the wonders He has performed. [5] For He established a testimony in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers
to teach to their children, [6] that the coming generation would know them—
even children yet to be born—
to arise and tell their own children [7] that they should put their confidence in God,
not forgetting His works,
but keeping His commandments. [8] Then they will not be like their fathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
whose heart was not loyal,
whose spirit was not faithful to God. [9] The archers of Ephraim
turned back on the day of battle. [10] They failed to keep God’s covenant
and refused to live by His law. [11] They forgot what He had done,
the wonders He had shown them. [12] He worked wonders before their fathers
in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan. [13] He split the sea and brought them through;
He set the waters upright like a wall. [14] He led them with a cloud by day
and with a light of fire all night. [15] He split the rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the seas. [16] He brought streams from the stone
and made water flow down like rivers. [17] But they continued to sin against Him,
rebelling in the desert against the Most High. [18] They willfully tested God
by demanding the food they craved. [19] They spoke against God, saying,
“Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? [20] When He struck the rock, water gushed out
and torrents raged.
But can He also give bread
or supply His people with meat?” [21] Therefore the LORD heard
and was filled with wrath;
so a fire was kindled against Jacob,
and His anger flared against Israel, [22] because they did not believe God
or rely on His salvation. [23] Yet He commanded the clouds above
and opened the doors of the heavens. [24] He rained down manna for them to eat;
He gave them grain from heaven. [25] Man ate the bread of angels;
He sent them food in abundance. [26] He stirred the east wind from the heavens
and drove the south wind by His might. [27] He rained meat on them like dust,
and winged birds like the sand of the sea. [28] He felled them in the midst of their camp,
all around their dwellings. [29] So they ate and were well filled,
for He gave them what they craved. [30] Yet before they had filled their desire,
with the food still in their mouths, [31] God’s anger flared against them,
and He put to death their strongest
and subdued the young men of Israel. [32] In spite of all this, they kept on sinning;
despite His wonderful works, they did not believe. [33] So He ended their days in futility,
and their years in sudden terror. [34] When He slew them, they would seek Him;
they repented and searched for God. [35] And they remembered that God was their Rock,
that God Most High was their Redeemer. [36] But they deceived Him with their mouths,
and lied to Him with their tongues. [37] Their hearts were disloyal to Him,
and they were unfaithful to His covenant. [38] And yet He was compassionate;
He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them.
He often restrained His anger
and did not unleash His full wrath. [39] He remembered that they were but flesh,
a passing breeze that does not return. [40] How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness
and grieved Him in the desert! [41] Again and again they tested God
and provoked the Holy One of Israel. [42] They did not remember His power —
the day He redeemed them from the adversary, [43] when He performed His signs in Egypt
and His wonders in the fields of Zoan. [44] He turned their rivers to blood,
and from their streams they could not drink. [45] He sent swarms of flies that devoured them,
and frogs that devastated them. [46] He gave their crops to the grasshopper,
the fruit of their labor to the locust. [47] He killed their vines with hailstones
and their sycamore-figs with sleet. [48] He abandoned their cattle to the hail
and their livestock to bolts of lightning. [49] He unleashed His fury against them,
wrath, indignation, and calamity—
a band of destroying angels. [50] He cleared a path for His anger;
He did not spare them from death
but delivered their lives to the plague. [51] He struck all the firstborn of Egypt,
the virility in the tents of Ham. [52] He led out His people like sheep
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness. [53] He led them safely, so they did not fear,
but the sea engulfed their enemies. [54] He brought them to His holy land,
to the mountain His right hand had acquired. [55] He drove out nations before them
and apportioned their inheritance;
He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents. [56] But they tested and disobeyed God Most High,
for they did not keep His decrees. [57] They turned back and were faithless like their fathers,
twisted like a faulty bow. [58] They enraged Him with their high places
and provoked His jealousy with their idols. [59] On hearing it, God was furious
and rejected Israel completely. [60] He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
the tent He had pitched among men. [61] He delivered His strength to captivity,
and His splendor to the hand of the adversary. [62] He surrendered His people to the sword
because He was enraged by His heritage. [63] Fire consumed His young men,
and their maidens were left without wedding songs. [64] His priests fell by the sword,
but their widows could not lament. [65] Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
like a mighty warrior overcome by wine. [66] He beat back His foes;
He put them to everlasting shame. [67] He rejected the tent of Joseph
and refused the tribe of Ephraim. [68] But He chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion, which He loved. [69] He built His sanctuary like the heights,
like the earth He has established forever. [70] He chose David His servant
and took him from the sheepfolds; [71] from tending the ewes He brought him
to be shepherd of His people Jacob,
of Israel His inheritance. [72] So David shepherded them with integrity of heart
and guided them with skillful hands.

## Places in this chapter

- **Shiloh** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/shiloh
- **Egypt** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/egypt
- **Zoan** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/zoan
- **Mount Zion** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/mount-zion
- **Ham 2** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/ham-2

## Each verse

- Psalms 78:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/1
- Psalms 78:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/2
- Psalms 78:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/3
- Psalms 78:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/4
- Psalms 78:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/5
- Psalms 78:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/6
- Psalms 78:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/7
- Psalms 78:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/8
- Psalms 78:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/9
- Psalms 78:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/10
- Psalms 78:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/11
- Psalms 78:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/12
- Psalms 78:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/13
- Psalms 78:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/14
- Psalms 78:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/15
- Psalms 78:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/16
- Psalms 78:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/17
- Psalms 78:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/18
- Psalms 78:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/19
- Psalms 78:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/20
- Psalms 78:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/21
- Psalms 78:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/22
- Psalms 78:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/23
- Psalms 78:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/24
- Psalms 78:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/25
- Psalms 78:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/26
- Psalms 78:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/27
- Psalms 78:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/28
- Psalms 78:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/29
- Psalms 78:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/30
- Psalms 78:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/31
- Psalms 78:32 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/32
- Psalms 78:33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/33
- Psalms 78:34 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/34
- Psalms 78:35 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/35
- Psalms 78:36 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/36
- Psalms 78:37 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/37
- Psalms 78:38 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/38
- Psalms 78:39 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/39
- Psalms 78:40 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/40
- Psalms 78:41 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/41
- Psalms 78:42 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/42
- Psalms 78:43 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/43
- Psalms 78:44 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/44
- Psalms 78:45 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/45
- Psalms 78:46 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/46
- Psalms 78:47 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/47
- Psalms 78:48 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/48
- Psalms 78:49 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/49
- Psalms 78:50 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/50
- Psalms 78:51 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/51
- Psalms 78:52 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/52
- Psalms 78:53 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/53
- Psalms 78:54 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/54
- Psalms 78:55 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/55
- Psalms 78:56 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/56
- Psalms 78:57 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/57
- Psalms 78:58 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/58
- Psalms 78:59 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/59
- Psalms 78:60 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/60
- Psalms 78:61 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/61
- Psalms 78:62 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/62
- Psalms 78:63 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/63
- Psalms 78:64 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/64
- Psalms 78:65 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/65
- Psalms 78:66 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/66
- Psalms 78:67 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/67
- Psalms 78:68 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/68
- Psalms 78:69 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/69
- Psalms 78:70 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/70
- Psalms 78:71 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/71
- Psalms 78:72 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/78/72